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Library Program to bring Dinosaurs to Weedsport
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (184+ words) A Cayuga County library will let area children get hands-on learning with dinosaurs. The Weedsport Free Library will hold its Dinosaurs Rock program on Wednesday at 11:00a. The event will see the library transformed into a mini dinosaur museum with a…...
Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops”
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (989+ words) Humans and every other vertebrate may share an astonishingly strange ancestor: a tiny creature with a single eye centered on the top of its head. Recent research from Lund University and the University of Sussex proposes that the earliest ancestor…...
This 518-Million-Year-Old Creature Reveals How Spiders Got Their Bite
22+ hour, 20+ min ago (773+ words) Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan University identified an ancient member of the chelicerate group. Beneath the rock surrounding a tiny fossil from southern China, two small limbs had remained hidden for 518 million years. When researchers finally looked…...
Perching birds became incredibly diverse through rare bursts of evolution
8+ hour, 24+ min ago (1063+ words) Perching birds evolved their body shapes in rare, sudden bursts that lined up with moments of upheaval in Earth’s climate. A new study reconstructs about 50 million years of change in their skeletons. Most of that change was packed into a…...
A machine was preparing the ground for new houses when it found a 2-meter tusk, revealed dozens of buried mammoths, and turned the real estate project into a museum.
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (1003+ words) A machine was preparing the ground for new houses when it found a tusk of approximately 2 meters among the removed earth. The discovery of mammoths interrupted the real estate project and opened the way for an investigation that would forever…...
Humans and dinosaurs are merely supporting characters... because life owes its existence to 'them' [Book] - MK
10+ hour, 28+ min ago (244+ words) We may have learned the history of Earth the wrong way. In the stories told about the planet's past, the figures that always appeared were animals: Tyrannosaurus rex, tearing into herbivorous dinosaurs with blood around its mouth, or a saber-toothed…...
Forgotten for 20 Years, This 240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a New Reptile Species
22+ hour, 29+ min ago (1107+ words) Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles. Some 240 million years ago, long before dinosaurs dominated the land and modern crocodiles emerged, their distant relatives were undergoing a crucial stage…...
Giant Armadillo of Brazil: Cerrado Architect Creates Burrows Used by 32 Species in 596-Day Study
10+ hour, 12+ min ago (348+ words) In the vast lands of the Cerrado of Goiás in Brazil, the giant armadillo stands out not only for its size but for its ability to modify the environment. This mammal, scientifically known as Priodontes maximus, has been described as…...
190-Year-Old Museum Specimen Solves a Pangolin Mystery
22+ hour, 29+ min ago (998+ words) New DNA analysis and a reconstructed family tree could help protect it from poaching. On a museum shelf in London, a pangolin specimen collected nearly 190 years ago held genetic evidence that could change how conservationists track one of the world’s…...
Mystery Buyer Pays $72 Million AUD for Rare T-Rex Skeleton - 2EC
9+ hour, 15+ min ago (292+ words) A giant Tyrannosaurus rex known as Gus has rewritten the record books after selling for an astonishing US$50.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The result makes the prehistoric predator the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold at…...