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26+ min ago   (554+ words) More than 10 million years ago, South America was home to an ecosystem filled with enormous animals and formidable predators. During the Miocene, a geological period that lasted for millions of years, a vast lake covered a large portion of the…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (97+ words) A “Lively” discussion on tap for next paleontology event The Times-Independent A “Lively” discussion on tap for next paleontology event Dr. Joshua Lively, curator of Paleontology at the Utah State University-Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price, will present an update on…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (88+ words) Biologists on the hunt for museum collection additions CBC Biologists on the hunt for museum collection additions Biologists from a variety of disciplines come together for BiotaNB, an intense two-week survey and collection of biological specimens in a provincial protected…...

11+ hour, 26+ min ago   (533+ words) Snakes have some of the most intricate spines in the reptile class. Snakes have always been perceived as a long body with a head attached. Now new research from Monash University has revealed that they are more complex creatures, having…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (492+ words) Scientists have made a surprising discovery in a 125-million-year-old dinosaur fossil unearthed in China, potentially revealing a previously unknown anatomical feature in these ancient animals. The fossil, a young plant-eater now named Haolong dongi, seems to have hollow spikes rising…...

11+ hour, 23+ min ago   (382+ words) abcnews.com New dinosaur species discovered Paleontologists, in what's being called the expedition of the century, uncovered fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus roughly the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex....

10+ hour, 49+ min ago   (422+ words) Christoph Adami discusses work by Reverend William Dallinger, a contemporary of Charles Darwin. Source We have been looking at Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information.Today, we are continuing to consider Chapter 4, entitled “Experiments in Evolution.” Adami discusses…...

13+ hour, 54+ min ago   (300+ words) ctvnews.ca PARIS, France -- Narwhals have nature’s only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three metres long so strange they were sold as magical unicorn horns during the Middle Ages The tusks have fascinated scientists ever since, but…...

11+ hour, 42+ min ago   (761+ words) New research using 72 ancient genomes gives a clearer picture of how people moved through Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga over the past 3000 years. For thousands of years, people have been crossing huge stretches of the Pacific creating connections between islands that…...

13+ hour, 20+ min ago   (537+ words) Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The research, published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, argues that we need a…...