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Forgotten for nearly 80 years, this fossil concealed an unknown predator that lived 210 million years ago
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (345+ words) Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study identifies Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa as a distinct genus and species. The fossil also reveals that it lived alongside another early crocodile relative, Hesperosuchus agilis, even though the two animals displayed different…...
Ancient Fossil Changes the History of Live Birth
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (310+ words) A long-extinct, dog-size predator may have been giving birth in a way that changes an important part of the narrative of mammals, reports Live Science. A new analysis of a 236-million-year-old... Ancient Fossil Changes the History of Live Birth A…...
Hands and Fins and Feet
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (306+ words) The dead grouper discovered in Tampa Bay. Courtesy the author. Maybe the fish washed up a corpse, or maybe he (or she or they) suffocated in the receding tide. Either way, the end was horrific. K. brevis releases a nasty neurotoxin…...
Today is their day: Celebrities who made history with their left hand
2+ hour, 58+ min ago (517+ words) August 13 is International Left-Handers Day Modern.az website has investigated the history of left-handedness and famous left-handers who left their mark on world history on the occasion of this day. Writing read in a mirror - Leonardo's left-hand trace One of…...
Left-Handed?
6+ hour, 31+ min ago (50+ words) WFUV It's International Left-Handers Day — a day for lefties to celebrate their sinistrality. So let's join in with music by left-handers. I'll spin a set of your suggestions with my left hand. Hear your requests weekdays after 9 a.m. - Jimmy Cliff "You…...
Carnivorous plant discovery validates theory proposed by Darwin 150 years ago
3+ hour, 42+ min ago (174+ words) China Daily Global Edition Carnivorous plant discovery validates theory proposed by Darwin 150 years ago Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first carnivorous plant in the Saxifragales order — a group of non-woody flowering plants widely spread across temperate and cold…...
U of I Extension to hold Illinois Valley fossils program Sept. 9 in Mendota
4+ hour, 2+ min ago (116+ words) Shaw Local The University of Illinois Extension will hold a free Fossils of the Illinois Valley program for community members from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the Graves-Hume Public Library, 1401 W. Main St., Mendota. Attendees can learn about fossils found in the…...
Scientists looked inside crocodile heads??? and made an astounding discovery
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (351+ words) Researchers have discovered that the brains of crocodiles and their close relatives have remained almost completely unchanged for 100 million years. For the past 100 million years, crocodiles and their close relatives – including alligators, caimans and gharials – have survived dramatic changes in…...
Missing for 34 years – and now found on the Trift Glacier above Saas-Grund? - Pomona - Das Wallis im Hosensack
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (18+ words) Missing for 34 years – and now found on the Trift Glacier above Saas-Grund? Pomona - Das Wallis im Hosensack...
Chiniquodon’s bone puts live birth in mammals 90 million years earlier than thought
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (592+ words) Chiniquodon theotonicus — a carnivorous, dog-sized animal from the Triassic — left a message in its bone: a microscopically thin growth ring that only forms at birth, in live-bearing animals. The specimen, found in northwestern Argentina and catalogued as CRILAR PV109, is 236 million…...