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New "T-Rex" species at the Perot Museum - CBS Texas
15+ min ago (18+ words) New "T-Rex" species at the Perot Museum CBS News New "T-Rex" species at the Perot Museum...
Protobiosignatures in the framework of early life detection - Nature Astronomy
17+ hour, 43+ min ago (289+ words) Experimental investigations of biomorphs " abiotic structures that mimic the morphology of life " provide essential control data for biosignature interpretation. On planets where chemistry never quite became life, these experiments may hold the key for detecting and understanding extraterrestrial origin of…...
Why Do Flamingos Stand on One Leg? The Scientific Reason Explained
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (531+ words) Home " Animals " Why Do Flamingos Stand on One Leg? The Scientific Reason Explained Picture a flock of vibrant pink flamingos, frozen in time like living statues on shimmering lakes. That quirky one-legged pose looks almost comical at first glance. Yet…...
Visit Henry the triceratops at the science musum in Springfield
10+ hour, 43+ min ago (207+ words) Henry the triceratops is a draw at the Missouri Institute of Natural Science Museum in Springfield. The collections on display in the museum reach back 2. 5 million years. The museum holds fossils, bones, rocks, minerals and crystals, with a hands-on classroom…...
There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age " and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (619+ words) The newly described mosasaur Tylosaurus rex spanned up to 43 feet (13 meters) long and may have been one of the fiercest marine predators of the dinosaur age. There's a new T. rex in town, but this one didn't hunt on land. It…...
Global plant diversity evolved mostly from staying in place, not dispersing
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (816+ words) The study's findings emphasize the importance of preserving plant hot spots such as the Amazon basin, pictured above. Image by i Stock/DDurrich A Stanford-led study tracked the evolutionary processes underlying about 90% of the world's plant species over the past…...
New Study Unveils Cavefish Species Evolution
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (151+ words) Mirage News A new Yale study identifies a distinct species of eyeless cavefish, a discovery that challenges long-held conventional wisdom that caves and other subterranean ecosystems are evolutionary dead ends. The study shows that three species of Southern cavefish, including…...
Underground evolution: Study reveals how new cavefish species emerged
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (377+ words) A Yale-led study describing a new Southern cavefish species provides strong evidence that new species can arise in organisms adapted to live only'underground. CT scanning revealed that the skull of the new species,'Typhlichthys styx, features the remnant of an…...
NC Fossil Festival returns to Aurora this weekend with fossils, races and family fun
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (325+ words) The North Carolina Fossil Festival is returning to the Aurora Fossil Museum this weekend with fossil digging, races, vendors and family activities planned across two days in Beaufort County. George Young, a board member and volunteer with the Aurora Fossil…...
567-Million-Year-Old Sea Fossil Reveals Origins of Sexual Reproduction
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (475+ words) Researchers have uncovered a major fossil site in Canada's Northwest Territories that could reshape scientific understanding of when sexual reproduction first appeared on Earth. The fossils date to the Ediacaran Period, more than 500 million years ago, when some of the…...