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15-Million-Year-Old Strong-Jawed Cat Discovered With Only a Jaw Bone
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (530+ words) Home " News " 15-Million-Year-Old Strong-Jawed Cat Discovered With Only a Jaw Bone The world is ancient, older than we may know. Although we humans like to think that we know everything, there is so much yet to discover. Animals are one…...
Did the Mycenaeans Encounter the Rare Dwarf Elephants of the Aegean?
4+ hour ago (496+ words) Dwarf elephants of the Aegean, such as Elephas creticus on Crete and Palaeoloxodon tiliensis on Tilos, exemplify insular dwarfism, an adaptive response to island isolation characterized by limited resources, absence of large predators, and ecological shifts. Morphometric analyses of fossilized…...
Science Says the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimpanzees May Have Walked Upright in Ways That Completely Rewrite Our Earliest Origin Story
5+ hour, 1+ min ago (587+ words) Home " News " Science Says the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimpanzees May Have Walked Upright in Ways That Completely Rewrite Our Earliest Origin Story Textbooks long described this creature as a knuckle walker much like modern chimpanzees. It would…...
The Origin of the Ogre: Monsters Aren't Born, They Are Forged
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (35+ words) Every myth paints the Ogre as a thoughtless beast. They call us reckless monsters of pure muscle, driven only by appetite and rage "...
Ancient Velociraptor cousin glided on four wings and hunted birds
7+ hour, 49+ min ago (1156+ words) The new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern China approximately 120 million years ago. (CREDIT: illustration by Lewis La Rosa, colorized by J'o Canola) A fossil…...
Dinosaur-like shoebill flies over astonished tourists in Uganda
4+ hour, 12+ min ago (13+ words) Footage shows the striking shoebill before and after liftoff in Uganda's Mabamba Swamp....
Science Sunday: Paleontology WANE 15 First News Sunday - AOL
5+ hour, 51+ min ago (110+ words) Science Sunday: Paleontology WANE 15 First News Sunday That's amore! Dua Lipa and Callum Turner host second wedding ceremony at luxurious It" For the first time in 19 years, Apple's flagship isn't a phone Job numbers are up, but see which companies…...
Naumann's elephant in Japanese archipelago may have gone extinct much earlier | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
20+ hour, 30+ min ago (195+ words) A team of researchers says Naumann's elephant in what is now the Japanese archipelago may have gone extinct some 10, 000 years earlier than previously estimated. The team says radiocarbon dating of fossils suggested the animal went extinct about 24, 000 years ago. But…...
Scientists find the skeleton of a killer crocodile that hunted dinosaurs 70 million years ago, and its anatomy tells the story of predators that ruled without permission
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (895+ words) A nearly intact fossil from southern Patagonia has revealed a fierce crocodile relative that lived about 70 million years ago, just before the age of dinosaurs came crashing to an end. The animal, named Kostensuchus atrox, was about 11. 5 feet long and…...
Evolution: Chaos With A Silver Lining
22+ hour, 36+ min ago (9+ words) Seeing the innate benevolence in all there is emerging....