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Antenna-like cell appendage linked to turtles’ sex-deciding warmth-sensing
5+ hour, 5+ min ago (459+ words) image: A painted turtle hatchling at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station is on the left. The grayish hatchling on the right is a spiny softshell turtle in Nicole Valenzuela's laboratory. view more AMES, Iowa — When most baby turtles…...
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument reopens to the public
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (181+ words) Published 5:30 pm Friday, August 7, 2026 By Justin Davis | Blue Mountain Eagle DAYVILLE — The John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has reopened after threats and evacuation orders from the Rowe Creek Complex, Hay Creek Complex, and Shingle Fires subsided, the National Parks…...
In 2006 researchers dredged a clam off the coast of Iceland and prised it open to count its growth rings, and only afterwards worked out what they had done — the animal had been alive since 1499, the oldest individual creature ever recorded
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (491+ words) Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The clam was one of about 200. It came up in a routine dredge off Iceland in 2006, part of a batch collected by a team from Bangor University for a project reconstructing centuries of ocean climate…...
Rare fossil from Australia reveals one giant reptile's final meal, and the predator that tore it apart
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (411+ words) Before Queensland's Outback became the dry interior it is, it was covered by an ancient sea, and one fossil from that lost world appears to preserve a remarkable chain of predator-and-prey events in a single specimen. Researchers found evidence that…...
Extinct ice age toad found at La Brea Tar Pits rewriting Los Angeles’ climate history
4+ hour, 43+ min ago (935+ words) An illustration credited to Arturo Davalos that reconstructs a Late Pleistocene wetland at Rancho La Brea. (CREDIT: Arturo Davalos) A toad smaller than a human palm has rewritten part of Los Angeles’ Ice Age story. Fossils from La Brea Tar…...
Antenna-Like Cell Appendage Linked to Turtles??? Sex-Deciding Warmth-Sensing
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (461+ words) A painted turtle hatchling at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station is on the left. The grayish hatchling on the right is a spiny softshell turtle in Nicole Valenzuela's laboratory. Newswise — AMES, Iowa — When most baby turtles hatch, their…...
How some birds lost their flying skills: Egg-laying ducks provide new clues
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (378+ words) Deccan Herald Birds, at least a majority of them, fly It is the most specialised function they carry out for which their bodies have evolved over thousands of years Flight is the most power-demanding mode of locomotion, and in many…...
Dinosaur crochet among events at Jervis Public Library in Rome
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (187+ words) The Jervis Public Library, at 613 N. Washington St. in Rome, is a living testament to the genius and hard work of its benefactor John B. Jervis. ROME — Jervis Public Library in Rome will continue its dinosaur-themed events for the week of Aug....
New Troodontid Dinosaur Genus Identified from Fossil Bone Found Decades Ago in New Mexico | Sci.News
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (158+ words) Paleontologists have described a new genus of small, bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico approximately 73 million years ago....
How animal feces became an evolutionary force 540 million years ago
7+ hour, 54+ min ago (953+ words) Cambrian Explosion fossilized feces may have moved nutrients through ancient oceans, helping complex marine ecosystems expand. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) Fossilized feces may have helped transform Earth’s early oceans, feeding a cycle of nutrients, larger animals and more complex…...