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Meet a Mammoth at the Hulunbuir Historical Museum
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (105+ words) news.cgtn.com Meet a Mammoth at the Hulunbuir Historical Museum The mammoth fossil on display at the Hulunbuir Historical Museum in Inner Mongolia is one of the museum's most popular exhibits. A view of the mammoth fossil on display…...
Did These Feathered Wings Evolve to Be Scary? | Eons
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1550+ words) Around 124 million years ago, in what's now China, a turkey-sized, feathered dinosaur called Caudipteryx zoomed across the ground through an early Cretaceous forest. In many ways, it looked a lot like the early birds that were learning to navigate the…...
Scientists X-rayed ancient penguin bones from remote Antarctic island. Here???s why
1+ hour, 24+ min ago (625+ words) Antarctica wasn’t always the freezing and ice-capped remote land we know today… A study of penguin fossils, conducted by researchers from China University of Geosciences in Beijing, has revealed how ancient bones can offer a glimpse into climate change from…...
When We Did Research By Hand?? Idle Words
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1196+ words) When We Did Research By Hand · Idle Words GitHub Idle Words Thoughts on research, life, etc When We Did Research By Hand How ML/NLP Research Changed in the Course of My PhD I’m approaching the end of my time…...
Snakes for Supper: Ancient Levantines Ate Reptiles for 3,000 Years
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Ancient penguin bones reveal Antarctica’s shift from warm to cold
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (516+ words) Overview of the fossil specimens and the µ-XRF scanning area. (Boyang Xia et al., 2026 via SWNS) Penguin fossils have offered a new window into Antarctica's changing climate over millions of year. Analysis of remains from Seymour Island, off the Antarctic…...
Unraveling the Evolutionary History of Horseshoe Crabs: Q&A with Faye Santaniello
14+ hour, 37+ min ago (420+ words) For URI marine biology and wildlife and conservation biology double major Faye Santaniello, this summer has been an opportunity to explore the evolutionary history of one of the ocean’s most fascinating animals: the horseshoe crab. Santaniello, who is from Warwick,…...
The???mini-dragon??? that survived extinction: why scientists are obsessed
15+ hour, 36+ min ago (219+ words) More than just rare, the earless monitor lizard is a true living fossil. Its closest common ancestor is believed to have roamed the earth over 66 million years ago–back in the days of the dinosaurs. With such an extraordinary evolutionary…...
Ancient feces fertilize seas and ignite Cambrian biodiversity boom
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In Argentina, one fossil bone from a 236-million-year-old cynodont contained a rare clue about birth. Researchers found its newborn size resembled mammals, suggesting live birth evolved 95 million years earlier than thought
18+ hour, 58+ min ago (157+ words) For thousands of years, Pacific farmers adapted crops to drought and changing weather; now Samoa and Tonga are combining that ancestral knowledge with modern science to rebuild soil, manage weeds and make farms more climate-resilient Image Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikipedia Best…...