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How we worked out a fossilised "pterosaur" was actually a fish " new research
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (820+ words) Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who first recognised pterodactyls as flying reptiles, wrote that "of all the beings whose ancient existence has been revealed to us, [they are] the most extraordinary. Now known as pterosaurs, this extraordinarily diverse, highly…...
Rediscovered 500-year-old manuscript on display at Fletcher Free Library
15+ hour, 38+ min ago (75+ words) A more than 500-year-old manuscript recently rediscovered in the Fletcher Free Library archives is now on display. Rediscovered 500-year-old manuscript on display at Fletcher Free Library Exclusive: Video of EF-1 Williamstown tornado "Vermont's first ever April tornado Exclusive video of…...
Student discovers new carnivore dinosaur 3x older than T. rex
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (886+ words) You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" That was Simba Srivastava's first reaction to the battered fossil sitting in a paleobiology lab at Virginia Tech, a skull so crushed and twisted that he described it in less-than-flattering…...
Are We Connected by Evolution?
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (762+ words) Paul Eastwick was in high school when he first came across the idea that evolution might explain how and why humans love. It was in a 1994 Time Magazine article about the book The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. At first…...
Scientists rethink how animals build repeating body parts like fins and limbs
2+ week, 1+ day ago (857+ words) A long-standing puzzle asks a simple question: why do different body parts look related despite serving very different roles? Think about structures like fins, limbs, or even the bones in your spine. They follow a pattern. They repeat, but not…...
Unveiling the Past: 132-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks Discovered on South Africa's Coast
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (335+ words) In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 132-million-year-old dinosaur tracks along the picturesque coast of South Africa. This remarkable find has the potential to significantly enhance our understanding of prehistoric life during the Early Cretaceous period, a time when dinosaurs…...
Bird and tortoise fossil tracks on SA coast " latest findings are world firsts
1+ day, 31+ min ago (794+ words) The south coast of the Western Cape is a rich source of fossil tracks and traces " clues suggesting what this environment may have been like many thousands of years ago. Most have been dated to the Pleistocene era, between 130, 000 and…...
France's 17th-century Mazarine Library houses 600, 000 works
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (655+ words) Yann Sordet, director of the Mazarine Library and the Library of the Institut de France, stated that the Mazarine Library " founded in the 17th century by Cardinal Mazarin, minister of King Louis XIV of France " is the oldest public library in…...
Ancient Femur Hints at Early European Bipedalism
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (412+ words) Analysis of a 7. 2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity to walk upright on two legs - a distinctly human trait known as bipedalism - existed in pre-human ancestors at least one million years…...
New Mexico fossil sparks new questions about Tyrannosaur origins
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (174+ words) NEW MEXICO(KRQE) "Did a T. rex relative roam the Land of Enchantment millions of years ago? A new discovery out of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science suggests it did. "You're looking at the shin bone of a tyrannosaur,…...