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2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (593+ words) A remarkable discovery in Siberia has revealed the best-preserved DNA of a woolly rhinoceros ever found, extracted from muscle tissue inside a 14,400-year-old wolf cub. The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), a cold-adapted herbivore once common across northern Eurasia, vanished around…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1001+ words) Evolution occasionally indulges us with organisms that seem too cool or too scary to be true, like something out of a science fiction film. The phorusrhacids, better known as "terror birds," are one such case. These were large, flightless predatory…...

2+ hour, 42+ min ago   (538+ words) Dinosaurs liked it rough " and the fossils they left behind prove it. Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they literally broke each other's bones, a new study in the journal…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago   (627+ words) The East Yorkshire coast attracts thousands of tourists each year but the beaches and cliffs that make up the landscape are becoming a growing attraction for people seeking more than a day at the seaside. On the fastest eroding coastline…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago   (116+ words) Home " News " Fossil Discovery May Solve Mystery of what one of the Weirdest-ever Animals Ate A recent fossil discovery has begun to illuminate the feeding habits of Hallucigenia, one of the most peculiar creatures from Earth's ancient past. To grasp…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1021+ words) Everything around us seems to be changing at breakneck speed. Twenty years ago, smartphones were niche products. Twenty years before that, computers were clunky behemoths. Forty years before that, far more Americans traveled by train than by plane. Forty years…...

10+ hour, 2+ min ago   (590+ words) Iran democracy protesters clash with Met Police outside London embassy The findings challenge decades of assumptions about dinosaur biology A landmark investigation into Tyrannosaurus rex fossils has fundamentally altered scientific understanding of how long these apex predators took to mature....

10+ hour, 25+ min ago   (583+ words) Smithsonian Digitizes Pollen From 18,000 Plant Species'National Museum of Natural History A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than18,000 plant species from the tropics. These images are being used to train a…...

12+ hour, 33+ min ago   (92+ words) Study: T-Rex took around 35 years to fully grow'wandtv.com Family of former U of I basketball player makes $1M donation to athletic department Central Illinois soldier missing since WWII accounted for Man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting woman at a Decatur…...

12+ hour, 43+ min ago   (414+ words) Park workers excavated 3,000 pounds of fossil and rock National Park Service employees may have just uncovered one of the longest dinosaurs on Earth. Crews working on construction at the Dinosaur National Monument's Utah parking lot last September stumbled upon the…...