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5+ hour, 14+ min ago (356+ words) I LET MOSQUITOS FEED ON ME WITH VID By Kiara Wells Watch as one medical entomologist shares the reasons why she lets jars full of mosquitos feed from her arm. Veronique Paris, 35, from Melbourne, Australia, has been documenting her work with mosquitoes, posting shocking clips of the bugs latching onto her skin. In another clip, Veronique breaks down common mosquito myths that not all species bite, and of those that do, only females feed on blood ,and that's not even for energy, but to provide protein for egg development. She explains that a female mosquito only takes between three to five microlitres of blood, while still relying on nectar for energy. Her engaging videos also reveal that different mosquito species and even different populations feed on different hosts, giving viewers a deeper insight into the insect world many of us…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago (81+ words) 67-Million-Year-Old T. Rex Becomes First'AI-Ncient Influencer" For Natural History Museum Launch. Experience Abu Dhabi, Ogilvy Paris and Memac Ogilvy UAE bring one of the world's most famous T. rex's to life just in time for the museum's opening Abu Dhabi, UAE "December 2025: Experience A 67-Million-Year-Old T. Rex Becomes First'AI-Ncient Influencer" For Natural History Museum Launch Fivexs Exchange Introduces A New Account Security Framework To Enhance Platform Protection And Operational Integrity...

6+ hour, 33+ min ago (313+ words) From Fossil To Fan Favourite: "Stan The T. Rex Takes Over Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi "Social Media Abu Dhabi: As the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi welcomes visitors, one of its star residents is already capturing global attention online. "Stan" the Tyrannosaurus rex " one of the most complete fossilised T. rex skeletons ever discovered and a signature exhibit of the museum " has been brought into the digital age as an "AI-ncient Influencer". For the first time, a real T. rex fossil has inspired an AI-driven digital persona, transforming Stan into a talking, expressive digital character designed for social media audiences. With a bold personality, witty attitude and a distinctly self-aware sense of humour, Stan invites visitors and social media audiences worldwide to experience the museum in a fresh and entertaining way. This campaign gives one of Earth's most ancient creatures a contemporary…...

6+ hour, 43+ min ago (526+ words) Left, the skull of'Speleotherium logani, left,'at Muskox Cave. Right, Lloyd Logan, the new species' namesake, extracts the skull from the cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.' If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil has been determined to be a new genus and species of an ice age relative of the musk ox. The horns on the skull " found among many bones in the aptly named Muskox Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park " set Speleotherium logani, or Logan's austral scrubox, apart. The late Pleistocene's fossil record is well-known, said New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science paleontology curator Gary Morgan, so the discovery came as a bit of a surprise. Paleontologists Richard White, Jim Mead and museum paleontology curator Gary Morgan authored a…...

8+ hour, 9+ min ago (452+ words) Researchers say they can use the talents of pesky blood-sucking mosquitoes to their benefit In the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park, scientists brought dinosaurs back into existence by extracting their DNA from blood sucked by mosquitoes that had been frozen in amber. "A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just like today," said a narrating John Hammond, the park's owner, who actor Richard Attenborough played. "And, just like today, they fed on the blood of animals - even dinosaurs." Now, researchers in Florida say they've done something similar. Over the course of eight months, the University of Florida team identified the DNA of 86 different species of animals from blood sucked by tens of thousands of Florida mosquitoes. "Using mosquitoes, we captured vertebrates that ranged from the smallest frogs to the largest animals like deer and cows," Dr. Lawrence Reeves, an entomologist…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago (312+ words) Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species " about 90% " are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or within rotting logs and the stems of plants. The findings help to fill a gap in the fossil record since all other bee fossils described in the Caribbean were discovered within amber and are much older, dating back around 20 million years, Vi'ola-L'pez explained. The study authors believe that fossils housing the bee nests date back to around 20,000 years ago and could shed light on how bees have adapted to their environment, even in the ancient past. Vi'ola-L'pez was exploring the cave with colleagues in the summer of 2022, looking for specimens to study for his doctoral program at the University of Florida and the Florida Museum of Natural History....

9+ hour, 28+ min ago (382+ words) Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight. Dinosaur feathers are usually described as evidence of flight. But when researchers recently examined fossils preserved with their feathers intact, and found patterns of feather molting, they discovered a different story. Dinosaurs split from other reptiles roughly 240 million years ago, and feathers appeared relatively soon after " lightweight, protein-based structures that likely first evolved for insulation and then flight. By about 175 million years ago, a group known as Pennaraptora had emerged " the closest known relatives of modern birds and the only dinosaur lineage to survive the mass extinction 66 million years ago. Just as modern ostriches and penguins retain wings without flying, some early feathered dinosaurs may have followed a similar path. In the new research, what set these fossils apart is the level of detail preserved in…...

10+ hour, 48+ min ago (1032+ words) A massive predator's tooth turned up in North Dakota, a place better known for dinosaurs than sea monsters. The discovery raised eyebrows right away. Mosasaur fossils usually come from ocean sediments. These reptiles were built for life at sea, patrolling ancient waters during the age of dinosaurs. Finding one inland is not just unusual. It feels almost wrong. What makes this discovery even stranger is where the tooth was found. It came from a river deposit, mixed in with fossils of land dinosaurs and freshwater animals. That kind of setting does not happen by accident. So the question becomes hard to ignore: why would a creature known for open oceans show up in a river? According to a new study, the answer is surprisingly straightforward. The mosasaur was not a washed-in corpse or a fossil out of place. It was…...

12+ hour, 20+ min ago (466+ words) Have you ever watched the Olympics and thought "this would be better with a hint of dinosaurs?" Well, you're in luck. On Tuesday, Italian officials announced the discovery of thousands of dinosaur tracks on "nearly vertical dolomite walls" in Stelvio National Park, a protected area in the central Alps of northern Italy. The prints were found high in the mountains between the towns of Livigno and Bormio, where some of the Winter Olympics will take place in February. "Just a few weeks before the opening of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, this discovery sheds an unexpected and fascinating light on the mountains of Lombardy," Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said in a statement, referring to the northern Italian region of which Milan is the capital. The 2026 Games are co-hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, with competitions spanning some two dozen…...

12+ hour, 20+ min ago (466+ words) Have you ever watched the Olympics and thought "this would be better with a hint of dinosaurs?" Well, you're in luck. On Tuesday, Italian officials announced the discovery of thousands of dinosaur tracks on "nearly vertical dolomite walls" in Stelvio National Park, a protected area in the central Alps of northern Italy. The prints were found high in the mountains between the towns of Livigno and Bormio, where some of the Winter Olympics will take place in February. "Just a few weeks before the opening of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, this discovery sheds an unexpected and fascinating light on the mountains of Lombardy," Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said in a statement, referring to the northern Italian region of which Milan is the capital. The 2026 Games are co-hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, with competitions spanning some two dozen…...