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1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (931+ words) The bearded vulture achieves peak survival by consuming a diet of up to 90% solid bone. It's surprising that calcified remains offer greater caloric density than fresh meat. The acidic dissolution stage is required to extract nutrients from solid minerals. High…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (383+ words) Scientists are reexamining when the first animal appeared on Earth after a new discovery in ancient rocks. Tiny structures found in ancient Canadian rocks could be the oldest traces of animal life ever identified, dating back nearly 890 million years. The…...

9+ hour, 51+ min ago  (291+ words) There's plenty of local content lined up this Saturday morning on Country 1490, with stories from around southwest Saskatchewan between 7 a. m. and 10 a. m. From a new mural in Gull Lake to community connections in Shaunavon and updates at the T-Rex Discovery Centre in…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (539+ words) Harvestmen are some of the weirdest-looking arachnids to roam this Earth, and they've been doing so for millions of years. A particularly wacky new species has now been found in two separate 35-million-year-old amber specimens from Ukraine and the Baltic…...

1+ day, 6+ 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…...

19+ hour, 58+ 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…...

1+ day, 23+ 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…...

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…...

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…...

1+ week, 7+ 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…...