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'Ptree' is an interactive tree of life that allows you to trace the lineage of animals, plants, bacteria, and viruses.
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (397+ words) Ptree is a website where you can navigate through the classification of organisms by clicking on them, and learn about various characteristics such as their diet and lifespan. I tried out this interactive Tree of Life, which allows you to…...
This ‘living dinosaur’ survives up to 427 years and rank among the world’s longest-lived vertebrates
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (913+ words) New research suggests lake sturgeon may live for centuries, reshaping conservation plans for one of the Great Lakes’ rarest fish. Some of the lake sturgeon swimming in the Great Lakes may have been there before the United States existed. That…...
Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (620+ words) 620 CKRM Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is horticulture’s best-known living fossil. Abundant and cosmopolitan in the fossil record extending back 270 million years, the tree was thought long extinct by Western scientists. Then in 1690 botanist Engelbert Kaempfer…...
Understanding Left-Handedness: Myths, Facts, and Neurological Insights
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (62+ words) In good hands bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com - Experts bust myths about differences between brains of left and right-handed folks: There is no need to force kids to go against what their brain chooses, they say, while adding that only disadvantage is…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (762+ words) For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans....
Ancient Fossil Carpel-Like Organs Push Back Flowering Plant Origins
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (83+ words) Bioengineer.org For now, the specimen rests in the type collection under catalogue number PB206132, available for scrutiny by other researchers. The open-access publication ensures that the images and reconstructions can be independently assessed, an important step given how consequential the…...
Can You Draw a T. Rex Correctly?
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1673+ words) Over the last 25 years, a pair of professors have collected thousands of students' drawings trying to accurately depict a T. rex, but few get it right. Whether Barney, cheap plastic toys, or dinosaur chicken nuggets are to blame, here’s what most…...
'Tyrant Lizard Queen' offers a nuanced look at T. rex
4+ day, 48+ min ago (389+ words) The book fleshes out the life of this fearsome predator What was T. rex really like? In Tyrant Lizard Queen, paleontologist Riley Black paints a portrait of a misunderstood dinosaur. Tyrant Lizard QueenRiley BlackSt. Martin’s Press, $29.00 Tyrannosaurus rex is the ultimate…...
Fossil Ribs Reveal New Secrets About Ichthyosaur Swimming Technique
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (865+ words) Newswise — Ichthyosaurs ruled the oceans for 150 million years in the Mesozoic era. Their fish-shaped bodies are built for high speeds. In that case, it is normally an advantage to be as light as possible. “Ichthyosaur skeletons are in general quite…...