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What it Would have been like to Experience the Dinosaur'Killing Asteroid Armageddon: a Blow'by'Blow Account
11+ hour, 2+ min ago (1550+ words) Michael J. Benton Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Monica Grady Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences A great'Tyrannosaurus rex'strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from the carcass of a dead horned dinosaur,…...
Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (790+ words) Tara Djokic, Australian Museum; UNSW Sydney Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites " Mc Graths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into the Miocene epoch,…...
Deep dive into history: ice memory and sea beyond join forces to preserve grand combin's glacial record
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (232+ words) Deep dive into history: A research team coordinated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the'National Research Council of Italy'(Cnr-Isp) and'Ca' Foscari University of Venice'successfully extracted deep ice cores from the'Corbassi're glacier, on the Grand Combin massif. The bedrock…...
Bodybuilding in Ancient Times: How the Sea Anemone Got Its Back
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (409+ words) A new study from the University of Vienna reveals that sea anemones use a molecular mechanism known from bilaterian animals to form their back-to-belly body axi A new study from the University of Vienna reveals that sea anemones use a…...
Evolution Told by Turtle Scales
11+ mon, 1+ day ago (157+ words) In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes'small, specialized skin regions whose spatial organization is controlled by well-conserved genetic signals. Crocodiles are an exception: their head scales do not emerge from placodes but result…...