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Video New dinosaur species discovered
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (382+ words) abcnews.com New dinosaur species discovered Paleontologists, in what's being called the expedition of the century, uncovered fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus roughly the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex....
Lessons from Cooked Amoebas: The Dallinger Experiment
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (422+ words) Christoph Adami discusses work by Reverend William Dallinger, a contemporary of Charles Darwin. Source We have been looking at Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information.Today, we are continuing to consider Chapter 4, entitled “Experiments in Evolution.” Adami discusses…...
Scientists discover how narwhals grow nature’s only straight tusk
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (300+ words) ctvnews.ca PARIS, France -- Narwhals have natureâs only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three metres long so strange they were sold as magical unicorn horns during the Middle Ages The tusks have fascinated scientists ever since, but…...
Ancient DNA reveals how waves of migration shaped the Pacific
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (761+ words) New research using 72 ancient genomes gives a clearer picture of how people moved through Vanuatu, Fiji and Tonga over the past 3000 years. For thousands of years, people have been crossing huge stretches of the Pacific creating connections between islands that…...
Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries
6+ hour, 29+ min ago (537+ words) Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The research, published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, argues that we need a…...
House of the Dragon inspires new species name: Meet Thailand’s tiny ‘Syrax’ lizard named after Rhaenyra’s dragon - BusinessToday
12+ hour, 10+ min ago (625+ words) A newly discovered lizard in Thailand has been given a name that will sound familiar to fans of House of the Dragon — Acanthosaura syrax, named after Syrax, the dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in the fantasy series. Scientists discovered…...
Why does a narwhal’s tusk twist and what’s it made of?
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (859+ words) Narwhals in Northwest Greenland. (Carsten Egevang / Greenland Institute of Natural Resources via SWNS) Hidden secrets of the narwhal's twisted tusk have been revealed using the latest X-ray technology. Tusks of the species of whale native to the Arctic have long…...
Meet Bataspis crux, Jawless Fish that Cruised Devonian Seas with Batwing Head
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (547+ words) Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the wing of a bat and whose unusual head made it an efficient glider through Devonian seas....
What makes a narwhal’s tusk so special? Scientists are close to unraveling the mystery
6+ hour, 24+ min ago (496+ words) Narwhals are truly unique. The animals are known for their straight, spiral tusks, which can reach some 10 feet in length. These overgrown teeth are the only tusks in the animal kingdom that are known to grow in a completely straight…...
Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (882+ words) Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a species. (In Homo sapiens, Homo is the genus and…...