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Tramplesaurus Rex Precon Decklist: MTG's Biggest Dinosaurs
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (849+ words) Do you like large creatures? What about huge, enormous, massive?! In that case, you’ll want to get your hands on the Tramplesaurus Rex precon. It will allow you to consistently put the biggest threats on the table. Let’s explore more…...
The Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian object from 200 BC that looks like a miniature airplane
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (892+ words) It is very common to find images of birds in the art of Ancient Egypt. We see them in paintings and sculptures with species of all kinds, from the ducks hunted on the Nile to the ibis that lent its…...
New Ice Age toad species identified at the La Brea Tar Pits
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (830+ words) Decades-old museum collections from La Brea have revealed a bone belonging to a new species of Ice Age amphibian, a type of spadefoot toad. The most sensitive climate instrument at La Brea Tar Pits is not a mammoth. It is…...
Jabberwocks and Snallygasters: teaching environmental education with monsters, mayhem, and dice.
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (344+ words) Over 15 years of ocean science and conservation online Did you see the Snallygaster? It was there, clear as day, rooting through the trash at Foxy’s Harbor Grille, its tentacles probing for scraps of fish and week-old oysters. More than a…...
24-legged fossil offers new clues on how ancient animals moved to land
3+ hour, 38+ min ago (477+ words) C. praecursor spent its life straddling two worlds. Insects are one of the most species-rich groups on Earth. A new study on a 324-million-year-old fossil suggests that they did not make a sudden jump from water to land, but transitioned gradually…...
Centaurs optimistic for growth amid Martinez’ 20th year
4+ hour, 3+ min ago (662+ words) Brooklyn Center celebrate a point won by Yartzi Onofre against Cooper. Olivia Fletcher completes a dig as Brooklyn Center plays their home opener against Cooper. Setter Isabella Stelmach helps lead the way for the Centaurs. Yartzi Onofre works hard at…...
Crocodile that ate Dinosaurs reappears
12+ hour, 44+ min ago (447+ words) USG elections guide: Parties AURA and WAVE on the ballot Dylan Mulvaney makes her controversial Broadway debut in ‘Six’ In Tune with WBMB: ‘Already Won’ by earthsignchels CUNY fails to prioritize sexual assault survivors’ safety on campus Sacha Baron Cohen…...
Fossil feet may be misleading scientists about human evolution
4+ hour, 55+ min ago (521+ words) Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed. The discovery challenges a key assumption about what the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees looked like and how it…...
Not tiger, not wolf: Australian thylacine skull reveals far different hunting style
6+ hour, 49+ min ago (715+ words) video: Brief information video about the main findings of the study. Credit: Vera Weisbecker, CC-BY-SA view more A new study led by Flinders University has flipped the historic narrative about Australia’s thylacine, finding the native apex predator known as the…...
The fossil record suggests extinction crises killing 10% of species occur roughly once per million years, while events killing around 65% occur roughly once per 100 million years — but these are episodic catastrophes, not a steady countdown toward the next mass extinction.
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (1075+ words) David Raup's fossil-record kill curve estimated average waiting times for extinction events of different magnitudes. Those intervals describe an uneven historical distribution, not a periodic schedule or forecast of when the next crisis will occur. By Life Signs · Edited by…...