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Earliest Known Evidence of Animal "Right-Handedness" Found in 550-Million-Year-Old Spriggina floundersi Fossils
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (376+ words) Scientists have identified the earliest known evidence of animal "right-handedness" in 550-million-year-old Spriggina floundersi fossils from South Australia, revealing a consistent preference for bending to the right side. The finding comes from new research published in Scientific Reports, which analyzed…...
Prehistoric Pets" Summer Reading Tour Visits Fox Lake and Brownsville Libraries
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (165+ words) Through interactive presentations, attendees will meet reptiles, amphibians, and other remarkable animals that share traits with species that lived during the age of dinosaurs. The program combines science, natural history, conservation, and live animal encounters to create an engaging educational…...
Extinct Giant Salamander Revealed by Fossils
13+ hour, 9+ min ago (252+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Researchers originally assigned the three Ajimu specimens to the genus Andrias, which includes the world's largest living amphibians, but at the time, a lack of comparative specimens and research prevented their precise taxonomic identification....
20, 000-year-old bison and mammoth remains found at bottom of Sozh River in Gomel - ". " "
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (72+ words) 20, 000-year-old bison and mammoth remains found at bottom of Sozh River in Gomel ". " " - Belarus, Tajikistan discussed prospects of launching Dushanbe-Minsk direct flight - 20, 000-year-old bison and mammoth remains found at bottom of Sozh River in Gomel - MTZ expanding presence in Brazil…...
Parsippany Library Invites Community to "Unearth a Story" During Summer Reading Program
13+ hour, 56+ min ago (13+ words) TAPinto...
Little paleobiologists
8+ hour, 33+ min ago (67+ words) Vincennes Sun-Commercial Mylah Rusher, 5, of Lawrenceville, uses a magnifying glass to inspect a fossil Monday at the Knox County Public Library's Fortnightly Building. They were attending a program called Be A Paleobiologist, part of the library's summer reading program titled…...
Cretaceous fossil forest reveals dinosaurs dined on large fruits and seeds
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (402+ words) The discovery has overturned a long-held paleobotanical theory, revealing that flowering plants evolved large, fleshy fruits and seeds millions of years earlier than previously believed. The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Science, was co-authored by Dr. James Saulsbury, a…...
A few rocks spotted near a pond in northeastern Thailand in 2016 have just been confirmed as a 27-tonne, 27-metre sauropod " the largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia
6+ hour, 54+ min ago (575+ words) In 2016, a local man named Thanom Luangnan was walking near a drying pond in Chaiyaphum Province, in the arid northeast of Thailand, when he noticed something that didn't look right. There were bones exposed in the dirt at the edge…...
Denver museum discovers nearly 70-million-year-old fossil under parking lot - AOL
8+ hour, 42+ min ago (14+ words) Denver museum discovers nearly 70-million-year-old fossil under parking lot AOL. com...
Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto tasted water that had been sealed in rock three kilometres below a Canadian mine for roughly two billion years " water so salty and bitter it carried a flavour shaped entirely before animals, plants, or anything with a tongue had ever existed
7+ hour, 42+ min ago (389+ words) The strangest part of the story is not only that the water was old. It is that someone tasted it. Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a University of Toronto...