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Acanthosaura syrax: the new lizard species discovered in Thailand that pays tribute to "House of the Dragon"
7+ hour, 11+ min ago (247+ words) In the mountainous forests of the Mae Wong National Park, in western Thailand, scientists identified a new species of lizard named Acanthosaura syrax, in homage to Rhaenyra Targaryen’s dragon in the series House of the Dragon. The discovery was published…...
Scientists analyzed hundreds of human genomes and found DNA from two unknown ancient groups: a ghost lineage that split off 800,000 years ago, and another dating back 1.8 million years
4+ hour, 2+ min ago (749+ words) Ancient genomes reveal two unknown human groups, including a 'ghost' lineage that split off 800,000 years ago. By Kevin Montien · Editorial process Mapping our evolution through hundreds of thousands of years can be like finding out you have 20 cousins you didn’t…...
Bambu Lab 3D Printers Bring a 166-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Back to Life - 3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (651+ words) A 3D printed Megalosaurus sculpture from Jay Jay Burridge’s Dinosaurs Are Forever exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Image courtesy of Bambu Lab. Fourteen desktop 3D printers spent seven weeks producing the bones of a dinosaur that lived roughly 166 million years ago. The result…...
Six Ancient Dinosaur Bones Buried in China Just Revealed the First of Their Kind Ever Found in East Asia
41+ min ago (550+ words) In southern China, researchers stumbled onto something that simply shouldn't have been there. Just a handful of bones, but enough to shake decades of certainty about how these ancient giants spread across the world. A new dinosaur discovered in southern…...
Paleontologists put a Brazilian trackway beside one from Cameroon 3,700 miles away, and the dinosaur footprints lined up so exactly that both sets had been pressed into a riverbank that lies under the Atlantic today
5+ hour, 27+ min ago (758+ words) The rock shelf in northeast Brazil looks like nothing much. Three toes, pressed into mud that has since turned to stone, and not one print but a walking line of them across a flat slab. The awkward part is that…...
Dinosaurs of the Wild West (2027) - News
14+ hour, 1+ min ago (24+ words) Moviefone Dinosaurs of the Wild West (2027) - News Explore Movies and TV Shows Movie and TV Reviews...
Crocodiles Were Very Different Before the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs, New Research Says
6+ hour, 15+ min ago (295+ words) Crocodiles are the prototypical cold-blooded creature. Both figuratively and literally. According to new research published in Paleobiology and detailed by its authors in The Conversation, crocodiles became literally cold-blooded in an effort to become more figuratively cold-blooded. Scientists had always…...
I Wanted Just One Fossil to Settle the Question
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (1310+ words) I have never found evolution easy to believe. Not because I had carefully studied the evidence and disproved it. Quite the opposite. And this isn’t …...
Fossil study suggests ancient crocodiles evolved to be cold-blooded only after a mass extinction
11+ hour, 59+ min ago (559+ words) Modern crocodiles are often seen as models of cold-blooded endurance, but new research points to a much more high-energy past for their ancestors. Researchers say the branch that led to today's crocodiles may have stayed warm-blooded until close to the…...