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New Species, Ancient Bones: Inside the Ocean's Largest Whale Graveyard
2+ hour, 59+ min ago (360+ words) Chinese researchers have discovered the world's largest whale graveyard at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Stretching across a vast underwater corridor west of Australia, the site holds nearly 500 fossil sites, creatures potentially new to science, and bones dating back…...
New Scientist recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds
18+ hour, 58+ min ago (667+ words) Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall The Story of Birds Steve Brusatte, Picador (UK); Mariner Books (US) Steve Brusatte is three for three. His debut book…...
5. 3-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Whale Necropolis Revealed
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (874+ words) Bioengineer. org 5. 3-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Whale Necropolis Revealed In a groundbreaking discovery that reshapes our understanding of deep-sea ecosystems, researchers have unveiled one of the deepest known whale-fall communities in the ocean, located in the Diamantina Zone at depths surpassing 6, 700 meters....
The narwhal's spiraled tusk is actually an inside-out canine tooth packed with roughly 10 million nerve endings, and field studies in Nunavut have filmed the animals using it to stun Arctic cod with sharp downward strikes before swallowing them whole
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (1184+ words) In the cold green water off Tremblay Sound in Nunavut, a male narwhal lifts a two-meter ivory spike out of the slush, swings it sideways, and cracks down on an Arctic cod with a precise tap that leaves the fish…...
How dinosaurs evolved into birds: Evolution from Deinonychus to the pigeons
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (53+ words) The Times of India - How dinosaurs evolved into birds: Evolution from Deinonychus to the pigeons How dinosaurs evolved into birds through new fossil discoveries Deinonychus and the link between dinosaurs and birds The role of feathers in how dinosaurs evolved…...
Life-Sized Dinosaur Sculpture Installed at Ithaca Museum
6+ hour, 9+ min ago (398+ words) Visitors to the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca will soon be greeted by a new prehistoric resident: a 19-foot-long dinosaur model created by a recent Rochester Institute of Technology graduate. Andrew Bovenzi, who earned a bachelor's degree in studio…...
Dino Fest returns to Carnegie Museum of Natural History Saturday
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (259+ words) The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is hosting its second annual Dino Fest Saturday, a celebration of the museum's renowned paleontology research, collections, and exhibits. Dino Fest will have hands-on activities, live demonstrations, and expert talks. It's free with museum…...
Scientists discover a deep whale graveyard that is teeming with life
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (435+ words) This undated image provided by Peng Zhou shows a Chinese submersible recovering fossilized whale bones from the deep seafloor, southeastern Indian Ocean, in the Diamantina Fracture Zone. [GLOBAL TREND, IDSSE VIA AP] NEW YORK " Scientists have unearthed communities of marine…...
Dinosaur highway "longest of its kind in the world
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (48+ words) Nagaland Post Dinosaur highway "longest of its kind in the world" A dinosaur trackway made up of 200 footprints which were made 166 million years ago is the largest of its kind uncovered in the world, researchers have said....
Giant short-faced bear fossil
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (31+ words) FOX 13 Tampa Bay "Giant" is no joke of a word in this case. Dr. Bob Sinibaldi shares just how big giant short-faced bears were....