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Extinct American Cheetah Misidentified, Not Cheetah
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (282+ words) "It's very hard to imagine a prehistoric species we've never seen without comparing it to something we know," says Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, the paper's first author from the University of California, Santa Cruz. "But this approach can limit our understanding of…...
Ancient American cheetahs were not exactly cheetah-like
5+ hour, 12+ min ago (146+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 11:00 AM EDT “It’s really surprising and exciting to identify another predator present in Beringia,” Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), said in a statement. Berinigia is the ancient stretch of land…...
Scientists Unearthed a 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Cat Mummy With Its Whiskers and Claws Still Intact
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (784+ words) Frozen for 36,000 years, a saber-toothed cub still has whiskers, claws and features fossils never revealed. Dark brown fur still covers the head and front of a saber-toothed cat cub that died tens of thousands of years ago. Two rows of…...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (1023+ words) A remarkably complete armored fish fossil from Brazil survived near a massive asteroid crater, revealing an unexpected link to ancient Europe. Near the end of the Permian, an asteroid hit central Brazil and folded the rock layers around the crater…...
Early mammals weren’t all loners, as scientists thought – some already lived in pairs alongside the dinosaurs
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (740+ words) These early mammals looked like shrews do today. They were small and had a long body, eyes typical for nocturnal mammals and little spiky teeth for eating insects. But they were not shrews. They were the ancestors of all the…...
Ultimate Dinosaurs: Prehistoric giants haunt Minnesota State Fair
21+ hour, 21+ min ago (338+ words) The Science Museum of Minnesota has exhibited one form of dinosaur or another for more than 70 years. Its Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibition, inherited from an Ontario museum, has been in the Minnesota museum’s hands for more than a decade. But the…...
Dinosaurs come to life at Odell Williamson Auditorium in Bolivia
23+ hour, 41+ min ago (199+ words) BOLIVIA, NC (WWAY) — School is back in session, but some lessons are just too big for the classroom. Odell Williamson Auditorium (OWA) at Brunswick Community College invites families to step back in time with Dinosaur Dimensions: Expedition!, a larger-than-life interactive…...
The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research
23+ hour, 14+ min ago (503+ words) This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Source In my previous article, I describe how a recent paper proposing chemical pathways to life’s origin recycles failed models and…...
Abundant common fossils don’t need to be protected | Letter
22+ hour, 48+ min ago (482+ words) Museums have countless examples of the common fossils from these Lower Jurassic rocks, says the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre’s Phil DavidsonThe vast majority of the fossils revealed on this rapidly eroding part of the Jurassic Coast hold very little scientific…...
Indiana State Library invites public to???Lunch and Learn??? session on hosted digital collections and Indiana memory
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (135+ words) INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana State Library will host an educational “Lunch and Learn” workshop on Tuesday, September 8, focusing on the library’s vast digital archives and the “Indiana Memory” platform. Attendees are encouraged to bring their lunch to the in-person event, held…...