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Endangered lizard discovered in Canterbury High Country??? where it hasn't been seen for 50 years
27+ min ago (17+ words) Endangered lizard discovered in Canterbury High Country – where it hasn't been seen for 50 years The Press...
Fossil shows reptile species' aquatic transition
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (565+ words) Chinese scientists have identified a 244-million-year-old reptile fossil from Southwest China's Yunnan province as the earliest known archosauromorph that was highly adapted to life in water, providing the first clear evidence that some early members of the evolutionary group had…...
New mountain dragon lizard from Thailand named after Syrax from House of the Dragon
8+ hour, 17+ min ago (191+ words) Credit: Trivalairat et al., 2026 Scientists have described a new species of lizard from the high mountain forests of western Thailand, and have given it a name straight out of fantasy television: Acanthosaura syrax, named after Syrax, the dragon ridden by…...
Assistant Professor, Palaeoanthropology | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
8+ hour, 45+ min ago (288+ words) UTM Department of Anthropology is seeking an Assistant Professor in Palaeoanthropology The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Palaeoanthropology, with a focus on early hominins,…...
Where did the ivory trade go after China banned elephant tusks? North, into the Russian permafrost — where an estimated 10M frozen mammoths lie waiting, and a kilogram of tusk fetches up to $1,900. — Meduza
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (1897+ words) A mammoth tusk fresh out of the ground smells like a wet dog. It has lain in the permafrost for tens of thousands of years, barely changing. But once it’s hauled out into the sun, the countdown runs in weeks,…...
The Sweetwater County Library Foundation is seeking your Twisted Tales!
4+ hour, 4+ min ago (95+ words) Wyo4News Ghost stories. Paranormal encounters. UFO sightings. Psychic experiences. Strange coincidences. Things you simply can’t explain. The Sweetwater County Library Foundation is collecting the strange, spooky, and unexplained stories of Sweetwater County for our upcoming book, The Twisted Tales of Sweetwater…...
Tibetans carry a Denisovan-like DNA segment around EPAS1 that is associated with lower hemoglobin at high altitude, showing how interbreeding with an extinct human population contributed to life on the plateau
4+ hour, 3+ min ago (1020+ words) Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit At 4,000 meters above sea level, oxygen still makes up roughly the same share of the air as it does at the coast. The problem is pressure. Each breath contains fewer oxygen molecules, forcing the body…...
Homo antecessor Had Surprisingly Modern Skull, New Fossils Suggest | Sci.News
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (295+ words) A new analysis of three skull fragments unearthed at the Gran Dolina cave site in Spain indicates that Homo antecessor had bone thickness closer to that of Neanderthals and modern people than to more archaic hominins....
Nature Notes: Understanding the sixth mass extinction
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (263+ words) Baytown Sun Grasslands species are some of the birds that are disappearing most rapidly. Have you ever heard someone say that we are currently in a sixth mass extinction? A mass extinction occurs when the worldâs biodiversity declines at…...
Idaho 44: Gooding County - Fossils steal the show
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (136+ words) Boise State Public Radio Between Mountain Home and Twin Falls sits Gooding County, a high desert landscape in the middle of Idaho. It's got canyons and wildflowers and the Thousand Springs Visitor Center, which is the gateway to the Hagerman…...