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Only known woolly dog pelt returns to B.C. after more than 160 years
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (778+ words) VANCOUVER — When Coast Salish artist Atheana Picha ran a gloved hand through the thick white pelt of an extinct woolly dog that has returned to British Columbia for the first time in more than 160 years, her thoughts turned to how…...
Manning Public Library Partners with Western Iowa Transit to Offer Free Weekly Transportation
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (51+ words) Carroll Broadcasting Company An event every week that begins at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, repeating until November 17, 2026 An event every month that begins at 10:00 am on day Second of the month, repeating indefinitely...
Historic discovery in Santa Cruz: Reproduction of the Chalt??n Frog confirmed in Los Glaciares National Park
6+ hour, 41+ min ago (472+ words) A scientifically significant discovery has confirmed for the first time an active breeding and rearing site for the Chaltén Frog (Chaltenobatrachus grandisonae) within the Los Glaciares National Park, in Santa Cruz. The discovery occurred in the Moyano Section, located in…...
115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Found 473 Meters Below Inner Mongolia
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (575+ words) Researchers identified a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in an unexpected place in northern China: inside a drill core extracted during a search for copper. Recovered from a depth of 473.2 meters in Inner Mongolia’s Yin’gen-Ejinaqi Basin, the fossil represents the first published…...
Ancient vocabulary for evolving cells - Nature Ecology & Evolution
3+ hour, 23+ min ago (137+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026) Cite this article A comparative multi-omic study finds that family-biased repertoires of short regulatory DNA motifs remain conserved over greater evolutionary distances than do the motif sets and co-occurring motif pairs associated with individual cell types. Arendt,…...
A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (454+ words) Fossils reveal an extinct soundscape made by the motion of insect wings Grigs (Tarragoilus diuturnus shown) live today in China, Russia and Canada. They call by rhythmically rubbing their wings together. Researchers have reconstructed the sounds of grigs’ ancient relatives…...
Thailand's 'Jurassic Park' shines light on dinosaur evolution
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (430+ words) A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below making up northeastern Thailand's "dinosaur rush". Researchers have found a trove of dinosaur fossils across the region, which holds the…...
Ruby Reynolds Was 11 When She Found The Bone That Named The Largest Marine Reptile Known
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (430+ words) The whole case for the largest marine reptile ever described rests on fragments of a single bone from one side of one jaw. Recovering the rest took until October 2022. What emerged was a surangular, a curved bone that forms the…...
Biologists Were Wrong About the “American Cheetah” According to New Genetic Findings
8+ hour, 50+ min ago (530+ words) The extinct American cheetah wasn’t a true cheetah at all, say biologists in new research overturning our previous understanding of the legendary predator, revealing a cautionary tale about superficial scientific interpretations. In a recent paper published in Current Biology, a…...
Giant new dinosaur discovered beneath construction site in Brazil
9+ hour, 5+ min ago (507+ words) Scientists have identified a giant new dinosaur from Brazil that reached about 20 meters long and lived 120 million years ago. Its surprising evolutionary ties to a Spanish dinosaur suggest its ancestors crossed ancient land connections between Europe, Africa, and South America....