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1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Giant Human Relative
7+ hour, 57+ min ago (605+ words) A 1.4-million-year-old trail of footprints reveals that a powerful human relative grew nearly as large as us and may have traveled in all-male groups....
“Anche in biologia, il diavolo si nasconde sempre nei dettagli”
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (364+ words) Un ricercatore della Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn scopre che un piccolo crostaceo, ritenuto innocuo, altera la riproduzione di Ciona robusta....
Jurassic Park Author Michael Crichton's Favorite Book Is A Literary Classic You Have To Read
7+ hour, 9+ min ago (626+ words) Michael Crichton's books have been turned into some of the best films ever made, but his favorite novel is a literary classic. Jurassic Park Author Michael Crichton's Favorite Book Is A Literary Classic You Have To Read When you think…...
Scientists Just Found a 245-Million-Year-Old Sea Reptile With Its Organs Still Intact
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (323+ words) Some 245 million years ago, a small marine reptile died. Now, researchers have found its astonishingly well-preserved body, complete with an almost intact stomach, liver, and intestines. According to a new study published in Science Advances, the fossil offers the oldest…...
New dinosaur in Zimbabwe: Mini-sauropod that may have walked on two legs
6+ hour, 41+ min ago (617+ words) Newly revealed small sauropodomorph, named Musango, may have been a bipedal omnivore, unlike its giant vegan cousins such as Diplodocus, which definitely needed four legs On the shores of the fake lake Kariba, a reservoir straddling the border between Zambia…...
Scientists Found a New Fossil Predator Inside a Rock That Had Been Studied for Nearly a Century
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (349+ words) A fossil collected generations ago has finally given up its secrets. After a detailed investigation, researchers have identified a previously unknown predator that lived more than 200 million years ago in a world very different from today. Published in Proceedings of…...
Scientists Trace Modern Human DNA to Two Long-Lost Human Ancestors
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Scientists split the Iberian rabbit from the European rabbit after 2 million years apart, and the newly named Oryctolagus algirus is already vanishing from western Iberia
8+ hour, 55+ min ago (899+ words) Scientists split the Iberian rabbit from the European rabbit after 2 million years apart, and the newly named Oryctolagus algirus is al By Adrian Villellas · Editorial process For more than a century, scientists treated the wild rabbits of the Iberian Peninsula…...
Grain-sized fossils have solved a 113-million-year-old mystery, linking volcanic carbon dioxide to one of the ocean’s largest plankton extinctions
21+ hour, 11+ min ago (530+ words) Tiny fossils have helped scientists crack a Cretaceous cold case. Using chemical signals preserved in microscopic shells, Northwestern University researchers found strong evidence that ocean acidification helped trigger one of the biggest extinction events in the history of planktic foraminifera,…...
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA | Sci.News
14+ hour, 57+ min ago (437+ words) New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with two mysterious ‘ghost’ lineages: one in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, another in Eurasia over 1.7 million years ago....