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Darwin's Story Isn't as Simple as It Seems
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (478+ words) This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors" weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, I learned that Charles Darwin didn"t exactly come up with the theory of evolution by…...
Ever Wondered What a Deadly Flying Squirrel With Velociraptor Claws Would Look Like? Science Has Your Answer.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (422+ words) The velociraptor had a four-winged cousin that, according to the artist rendering released with news of its discovery, looks like a bizarre hybrid monster: the head of a wolf, the wings of a bird, a feathered body that would look…...
Scientists Just Discovered Half-a-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Animals Having Sex
3+ week, 6+ day ago (227+ words) Publishing their findings in Science Advances, the researchers from the American Museum of Natural History say the fossils were discovered in 567-million-year-old rock formations from the Ediacaran Period. Scientists believe clusters of a genus called Funisia reproduce by releasing sperm…...
Scientists Discovered the Brutal Reason T. Rex Had Those Tiny Shrimp Arms
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (393+ words) For as ferocious as the Tyrannosaurus rex is usually depicted in movies and pop culture, there's one unfortunate fact preventing this massive prehistoric killing machine from becoming one of history's all-time great real-life monsters: if you held it at bay…...
New Species of Tiny Blue Octopus Discovered in the Gal'pagos
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (337+ words) The little blue octopus was spotted in 2015 by researchers aboard the submersible Nautilus in 5, 800-ft. deep waters. The sub's remotely operated camera was visually combing the ocean floor when it caught sight of a flash of blue and zoomed in…...
Something Ate the Dinosaurs After the Asteroid Killed Them, Scientists Say
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (331+ words) The dinosaurs had a good run and a brutal end that, according to new research, somehow got even more brutal after they died. Because while the asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago wiped out most large life on…...
Scientists Say $600, 000 Lab-Grown "T-Rex Leather" Handbag Is Actually Something Laughable
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (363+ words) In April, Polish fashion brand Enfin Lev" dropped a bombshell straight from the late cretaceous period: a handbag they claim is made of "lab-grown T-rex leather." The startling announcement made headlines throughout the luxury design world, which was quick to…...
A Chance Fossil Discovery Led Scientists to "the Last Titan
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (234+ words) According to researchers publishing their enormous findings this week in the journal Scientific Reports, paleontologists in Thailand have identified a new species of a massive sauropod that may be the largest ever discovered in Southeast Asia. They also released an…...
Archaeologists Just Found Out What Neanderthal Kids Did When They Were Bored
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (277+ words) It's sometimes difficult to imagine what childhood was like for someone in another country who lived within a completely different cultural context from your own. It can be even more difficult to, say, imagine what Neanderthal children did with their…...
Were Neanderthals Able to Hunt Elephants? The Proof Is in an Ancient Bone
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (633+ words) When a 125, 000-year-old elephant skeleton, pierced by a wooden spear, was discovered in an ancient lake bed in Germany in 1948, it was assumed that the Neanderthals who inhabited Europe at that time were not sophisticated enough to hunt such massive…...