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@AOL
aol. com > articles > bone-breakers-meet-only-animal-173200803. html

The Bone-Breakers: Meet the Only Animal That Eats Skeletons for Breakfast

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (931+ words) The bearded vulture achieves peak survival by consuming a diet of up to 90% solid bone. It's surprising that calcified remains offer greater caloric density than fresh meat. The acidic dissolution stage is required to extract nutrients from solid minerals. High…...

@Dailygalaxy_info
dailygalaxy. com > 2026 > 04 > oldest-animal-found-in-remote-mountain

Scientists May Have Found the Oldest Animal on Earth Hidden in A Remote Mountain Rocks

3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (383+ words) Scientists are reexamining when the first animal appeared on Earth after a new discovery in ancient rocks. Tiny structures found in ancient Canadian rocks could be the oldest traces of animal life ever identified, dating back nearly 890 million years. The…...

Swift Current Online
swiftcurrentonline. com > articles > dino-updates-thrive-and-a-new-mural-on-country-1490

Dino updates, Thrive, and a new mural on Country 1490

9+ hour, 51+ min ago  (291+ words) There's plenty of local content lined up this Saturday morning on Country 1490, with stories from around southwest Saskatchewan between 7 a. m. and 10 a. m. From a new mural in Gull Lake to community connections in Shaunavon and updates at the T-Rex Discovery Centre in…...

Science Alert
sciencealert. com > scientists-discover-a-strange-arachnid-trapped-in-amber-35-million-years-ago

Scientists Discover a Strange Arachnid Trapped in Amber 35 Million Years Ago

2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (539+ words) Harvestmen are some of the weirdest-looking arachnids to roam this Earth, and they've been doing so for millions of years. A particularly wacky new species has now been found in two separate 35-million-year-old amber specimens from Ukraine and the Baltic…...

The Conversation
theconversation. com > how-we-worked-out-a-fossilised-pterosaur-was-actually-a-fish-new-research-280848

How we worked out a fossilised "pterosaur" was actually a fish " new research

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (820+ words) Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who first recognised pterodactyls as flying reptiles, wrote that "of all the beings whose ancient existence has been revealed to us, [they are] the most extraordinary. Now known as pterosaurs, this extraordinarily diverse, highly…...

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wcax. com > video > 04/17/2026 > rediscovered-500-year-old-manuscript-display-fletcher-free-library

Rediscovered 500-year-old manuscript on display at Fletcher Free Library

19+ hour, 58+ min ago  (75+ words) A more than 500-year-old manuscript recently rediscovered in the Fletcher Free Library archives is now on display. Rediscovered 500-year-old manuscript on display at Fletcher Free Library Exclusive: Video of EF-1 Williamstown tornado "Vermont's first ever April tornado Exclusive video of…...

Yahoo News
yahoo. com > news > articles > student-discovers-carnivore-dinosaur-3x-115100607. html

Student discovers new carnivore dinosaur 3x older than T. rex

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (886+ words) You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" That was Simba Srivastava's first reaction to the battered fossil sitting in a paleobiology lab at Virginia Tech, a skull so crushed and twisted that he described it in less-than-flattering…...

UC Davis
ucdavis. edu > curiosity > blog > are-we-connected-evolution

Are We Connected by Evolution?

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (762+ words) Paul Eastwick was in high school when he first came across the idea that evolution might explain how and why humans love. It was in a 1994 Time Magazine article about the book The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. At first…...

Earth. com
earth. com > news > scientists-rethink-how-animals-build-repeating-body-parts-like-fins-and-limbs

Scientists rethink how animals build repeating body parts like fins and limbs

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (857+ words) A long-standing puzzle asks a simple question: why do different body parts look related despite serving very different roles? Think about structures like fins, limbs, or even the bones in your spine. They follow a pattern. They repeat, but not…...

The Tech Edvocate
thetechedvocate. org > unveiling-the-past-132-million-year-old-dinosaur-tracks-discovered-on-south-africas-coast

Unveiling the Past: 132-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks Discovered on South Africa's Coast

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (335+ words) In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 132-million-year-old dinosaur tracks along the picturesque coast of South Africa. This remarkable find has the potential to significantly enhance our understanding of prehistoric life during the Early Cretaceous period, a time when dinosaurs…...