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Egg-bound in deep time
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (313+ words) Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians and the tuataras). The discipline can include the biology, ecology,…...
Insects Have Six Legs. But This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24 Legs and a Body Unlike Anything Alive Today
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (113+ words) A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard....
Prioritizing Quality Before Synthesis in Paleoenvironmental Hazard Science - Eos
8+ hour, 12+ min ago (608+ words) Here, sediment deposits mark the high-water lines of floods that surged through the canyon centuries before any stream gauges were there to measure them. In particular, Baker and his colleagues studied slackwater deposits, fine-grained sediments emplaced by floodwaters in sheltered…...
Bizarre Fossil Turns Out to Be a 24-Legged Insect Science Somehow Missed
17+ hour, 12+ min ago (254+ words) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat....
PBS KIDS character, Buddy the Dinosaur, to visit museum of natural history for family event
22+ hour, 40+ min ago (205+ words) THE NEW VIC THEATREGET TICKETS SANTA BARBARA, CA—The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History invites families and dinosaur fans of all ages to meet Buddy the Dinosaur, the beloved PBS KIDS character from Dinosaur Train, during a special appearance…...
What Can Ancient DNA Tell Us About Lost Populations?
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (433+ words) In the right sample, it can reveal relationships that bones alone cannot show: who was related, which groups moved, where populations mixed, and which genetic changes survived after a community disappeared. It can also show what ancient DNA cannot do....
Monkeys Just Challenged a Major Assumption About How Human Ancestors Climbed
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (703+ words) A study shows that monkeys use their feet to climb trees as skillfully as chimpanzees. The way a primate climbs a tree can offer clues about how our own ancestors once moved. New research suggests that whatever scientists eventually determine…...
Scientists Have Accidentally Stumbled Upon A Whole New Species Of Human. This Expert Says It’s Rewriting Early Human History
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (848+ words) Jiannan Bai and Xijun Ni/Natural History MuseumAn artist’s depiction of a Denisovan hunting. For nearly two decades, scientists have had nothing more than a finger bone and some teeth to identify what may have been a long-lost species of…...
Clues to two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors emerge from genetic traces found in modern human DNA - CNN
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (901+ words) Clues emerging from DNA could unlock the mystery of human ancestors that are missing from the fossil record yet present in the genes of people living today. While previous studies have discovered remnants of the ghost lineages, they could not…...