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Crook County children???s book author to host horse-themed event at Bowman Museum
8+ hour, 55+ min ago (164+ words) Published 3:00 pm Thursday, August 13, 2026 Bowman Museum is hosting a fun-filled morning of stories, creativity and horses later this month. The museum encourages families to join local author Dani Nichols for a special story time featuring her heartwarming children’s book, “Buzz:…...
More than 80% of Tibetans carry a high-altitude adaptation inherited from Denisovans—an extinct human lineage first identified from DNA in a tiny finger bone. Interbreeding tens of thousands of years ago gave their ancestors an EPAS1 variant that proved extraordinarily valuable in the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau.
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (670+ words) A Denisovan-derived EPAS1 haplotype rose to roughly 80–86% frequency in Tibetan samples, but interbreeding and selection were probably separated by millennia. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 14, 2026 · How we edit A fragment of a child’s little finger, small enough…...
Popular wildlife presenter to appear at Jurassic Discovery Seaton
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (298+ words) Wildlife TV presenter Nigel Marven will appear at Jurassic Discovery for a special evening of storytelling and science. The event, taking place on Wednesday, August 26, will feature clips from his series, fun science and behind-the-scenes stories from his time-travelling adventures,…...
Did Mammals Give Birth To Live Young 236 Million Years Ago? Fossil Discovery Explained
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (743+ words) A fossil from Argentina may have revealed that a mammal ancestor was giving birth to live young about 236 million years ago, potentially pushing the origin of mammalian live birth back by 90 to 95 million years. Researchers concluded after finding a rare…...
How a northern Philippine town learned to live with the world’s rarest crocodile
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (1569+ words) View all posts by Mara Cepeda → SAN MARIANO, ISABELA – The instruction, whispered on the bank of Dunoy Lake at seven in the evening, was that I should keep very still. Conservationist Amante Yog-yog Jr swept his torch across the black…...
NTU Shows Biodiversity Sustains Stability
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (323+ words) As extreme rainfall, heat waves, and droughts grow more frequent, the question of what keeps ecosystems from collapsing has moved from academic interest to policy urgency. Scientists have long known that biodiversity supports ecosystem function, but how it confers stability…...
‘Living fossil’: the blue-blood arthropod that has changed little in 445m years - AOL
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (561+ words) They pre-date dinosaurs, eat food using their legs and contain blue blood that we use to keep us healthy. Horseshoe crabs are the supreme, if offbeat, survivors of the invertebrate world. Often called “living fossils” for visually obvious reasons – horseshoe…...
Calling All Lefties: Celebrate Your Special Day!
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (656+ words) I am a member of an exclusive group of humans. Though small in number, only 15% of the world’s population are members, we have infiltrated every arena of life and learned to adapt to the majority’s lifestyle with unflagging, albeit graceless,…...
Paleo documentaries and terror birds
6+ hour, 32+ min ago (38+ words) Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago Phillip Hamilton • about 4 hours ago Zach Sweat • about 6 hours ago Uploaded by KimmyDude about an hour ago Resolution: (1121px x 518px) File size: 128 KB Uploaded about an hour ago...
A fire-breathing T-Rex at the Clark County Fair today
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (1706+ words) Buttondown A fire-breathing T-Rex at the Clark County Fair today 📰 What's Making News Kids Day at the Clark County Fair Brings Monster Trucks, a Fire-Breathing T-Rex Thursday is Kids Day at the Clark County Fair, and the lineup is exactly…...