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New Natural History Museum at UA Little Rock will be Scientific Outreach to Community
49+ min ago (808+ words) The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s planned Museum of Natural History will feature “so many really amazing items from our collection, bring more people to campus, (and accomplish) scientific outreach” through its myriad displays, according to Dr. Sinéad Ní…...
????Big boy???? crocodile named Prince William by conservationist Robert Irwin
9+ hour, 19+ min ago (228+ words) A 12ft saltwater crocodile has been named after the Prince of Wales by conservationist Robert Irwin in recognition of the future king’s dedication to protecting wildlife. The reptile, called Prince William, is the 300th crocodile to be tagged as part of a…...
Scientists Found Eight Sets of 1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints, and They Weren't Expecting Who Made Them
1+ hour ago (483+ words) These ancient humans left footprints side by side 1.4 million years ago. Now scientists are asking who they really were, and why they were never found alone. Eight sets of 1.4-million-year-old footprints, pressed into the mud of an ancient Kenyan lakeshore,…...
The Tasmanian Tiger's Skull Looked Like A Wolf's. It Didn't Bite Like One.
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (298+ words) Research led by Vera Weisbecker (Flinders University), Douglass S. Rovinsky (Australian Museum, Sydney) Digital reconstruction of a CT-scanned thylacine skull with the canines colourised pink. Credit: Vera Weisbecker (Flinders), CC-BY-SA That size mismatch alone stands out. Weighing around 17 kilograms, roughly a…...
Why were there no tiny dinosaurs? You might blame the mammals
3+ week, 4+ day ago (154+ words) Arab News Why were there no tiny dinosaurs? You might blame the mammals - Scientists employed mathematical models to explore the evolution of body size across vertebrate groups WASHINGTON: Everyone knows dinosaurs got really big. Some of the long-necked plant-eaters were…...
‘Big boy’ crocodile named Prince William by conservationist Robert Irwin
9+ hour, 19+ min ago (228+ words) A 12ft saltwater crocodile has been named after the Prince of Wales by conservationist Robert Irwin in recognition of the future king’s dedication to protecting wildlife. The reptile, called Prince William, is the 300th crocodile to be tagged as part of a…...
An unknown human lineage interbred with our ancestors in Africa more than 50,000 years ago — and although scientists still don't know who these humans were, traces of their DNA survive in every modern population studied.
8+ hour, 21+ min ago (1147+ words) A new genomic method detected roughly 0.49% to 1.1% ancestry from an unidentified human population across five sampled groups. The signal points to mixing in Africa before the main out-of-Africa expansion, but it has not been matched to a fossil species. By…...
Watauga County Public Library celebrating library card sign-up month
10+ hour, 51+ min ago (377+ words) This September, the Watauga County Public Library invites the community to celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month and discover how a library card can hit all the right notes. According to the library, getting a card is free, easy and empowering....
First pieces of 66-foot-tall dinosaur statue arrive in Tulsa, construction to start soon
13+ hour, 49+ min ago (175+ words) The first pieces of what will be a 66-foot-tall dinosaur arrived in Tulsa, filling up much of a small warehouse in West Tulsa, near where the statue will be erected in Howard Park. The Oklahoma Route 66 Commission is supporting the…...
Twenty-one fossil footprints at GaJi10 on Kenya’s Lake Turkana record eight Paranthropus boisei crossing the same muddy shore 1.43 million years ago, the largest maybe 1.8 metres and 75 kilograms — a snapshot of company bones almost never preserve, published in PNAS this week.
11+ hour, 37+ min ago (259+ words) Twenty-one hominin prints at GaJi10 on Lake Turkana record eight individuals 1.43 million years ago. The paper’s call is Paranthropus boisei; the largest maybe 1.8 m and 75 kg. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Bones accumulate. Footprints…...