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Scientists Opened A Museum Drawer And Found A Lost Ice Age Frog Hidden In Plain Sight For Thousands Of Years
50+ min ago (607+ words) Scientists returned to an old fossil collection expecting to study familiar remains, but one overlooked frog specimen revealed something completely unexpected. A fossil dug up at California’s La Brea Tar Pits in the 1950s has finally revealed its secret: it belongs…...
New discovery dispels the myth that the extinct dodo bird was stupid
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (16+ words) Coast to Coast AM...
The Dusty Dinosaurs off Route 12
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Researchers reveal the DNA of a ‘ghost’ lineage in all humans: it interbred with our ancestors more than 50,000 years ago
5+ hour, 30+ min ago (291+ words) Scientists in California have shed further light on the complex process of human evolution across millions of years of interbreeding. A recent study published by the University of California, Berkeley has identified genetic traces of two previously unknown hominin species…...
"Unearth a Story" was the theme of this year's Summer Reading program at the Sullivan County libraries.
8+ hour, 33+ min ago (20+ words) Kingsport Times News...
Why couldn???t dinosaurs shrink? Scientists point to early mammals
5+ hour ago (449+ words) A new study suggests early mammals may help explain why dinosaurs never evolved into truly tiny adults, despite ruling Earth for millions of years. Researchers found that biology alone cannot explain the striking absence of mouse-sized dinosaurs, pointing instead to…...
Jurassic Park's Most Important Prop Is Finally Going Up for Sale, and Collectors Are Already Battling in Early Bidding
4+ hour, 54+ min ago (323+ words) ComicBook.com Jurassic Park cemented its place in movie history the moment everyone saw a Tyrannosaur terrorize two children in a broken-down car. Long before that, the movie was marketed with a simple teaser showing miners working in the dust…...
Why are we (almost all) right‑handed? Two million years of evolutionary mystery
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (617+ words) Why are we (almost all) right‑handed?...
Bill Zuck: I’ll raise you one brontosaurus
9+ hour, 35+ min ago (225+ words) The Sun Chronicle Any thoughts of gambling, and my pessimistic side comes right to the surface. For me, the potential excitement of betting on the ponies, or successfully rolling a six the hard way, or seeing my team cover the…...
Antenna-like cell appendage linked to turtles’ sex-deciding warmth-sensing
15+ hour, 8+ min ago (459+ words) image: A painted turtle hatchling at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station is on the left. The grayish hatchling on the right is a spiny softshell turtle in Nicole Valenzuela's laboratory. view more AMES, Iowa — When most baby turtles…...