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50+ min ago (795+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

50+ min ago (795+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

50+ min ago (795+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

50+ min ago (795+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

50+ min ago (795+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

50+ min ago (828+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

50+ min ago (795+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

50+ min ago (870+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. A 125-million-year-old fossil from the early Cretaceous shows the skeletons of a smaller mammal biting a larger horned dinosaur, suggesting a much more complex ancient food web. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for…...

50+ min ago (795+ words) Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet " and it's already reshaping scientists' understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only five rhino species alive today, the fossil record suggests that in the past, well over 50 species may have walked the Earth. Back then, rhinoceroses occupied not just Asia and Africa, but also Europe and North America " and they came in all shapes and sizes. That's certainly the case for the newly named rhino now known as Epiatheracerium itjilik. E. itjilik had no horns, was on the smaller side and lived in the dark for months of the…...

1+ hour, 43+ min ago (430+ words) In a study of fossils, a research team led by evolutionary biologist and Johns Hopkins Medicine assistant professor Matteo Fabbri suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ago may have acquired the ability to fly when the animal first appeared, in contrast to prehistoric ancestors of modern birds that developed flight more gradually and with a bigger brain. A report on the study, which used advanced imaging tools to examine the brain cavities of pterosaur fossils, and was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, was published Nov. 26 in Current Biology. The findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not the driver of pterosaurs' ability to achieve flight, says Fabbri. "Our study shows that pterosaurs evolved flight early on in their existence and…...