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42+ min ago  (950+ words) The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the dinosaurs. The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out, say American scientists. They…...

51+ min ago  (61+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026) Cite this article Martha Mu'oz asks how behaviour affects the evolution of Caribbean anole lizards. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT,…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (112+ words) Seacoastonline. com Dino Day returns to Cape Neddick: Center for Wildlife hosts family dinosaur event CAPE NEDDICK, Maine " The Center for Wildlife will welcome families for its annual Dino Day celebration on July 18 from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. at its campus on Mountain…...

2+ hour, 59+ min ago  (484+ words) Researchers have confirmed a new-to-science species of marsupial in Australia's Northern Territory. The tiny mouse-like carnivore has been named the Arnhem Plateau planigale (Planigale petrophila) after the area where it's thought to live in; its scientific name translates to rock…...

4+ hour, 9+ min ago  (676+ words) Faculty of Health Sciences The largest shark vertebrae researchers have ever seen have resurfaced after being missing for more than 40 years. They are now shedding new light on the legendary Megalodon. Hidden away in boxes since the 1980s, a rediscovered set…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago  (214+ words) An 11-year-old boy, taking a stroll with his family along a beach in England, spotted a massive fossilized tooth belonging to an extinct elephant species that roamed the Earth nearly 1. 8 million years ago. Charlie Orchard-Lisle made the remarkable find while…...

13+ hour, 22+ min ago  (285+ words) By Hazel Belkis Belge ISTANBUL (AA) " A bone collected during a 1985 British Antarctic Survey (BAS) expedition has been formally identified as the first dinosaur fossil ever discovered on the Antarctic continent, nearly 40 years after it was unearthed. The vertebra was…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (282+ words) A vertebra discovered on James Ross Island in 1985 was long mistaken for a marine reptile before researchers identified it as part of a titanosaur that lived 82 million years ago Antarctica is known today for the largest ice sheet on Earth,…...

6+ hour, 57+ min ago  (950+ words) The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the dinosaurs. The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out, say American scientists. They…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago  (441+ words) Recently in these pages, S. A. Mc Carthy gave an elegant summary of "The Tragedy of the SSPX," a tragedy that is about to reach its climax with the Society of Saint Pius X's consecration of four bishops on 1 July in direct…...