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Octopuses Are So Smart They Are Now Turning Our Trash Into Tools
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (212+ words) Someone's thrash is another one's treasure - this old saying has an entirely different meaning for an octopus....
A 121-Million-Year-Old Bird Was Already Peacocking Before Peacocks Existed
2+ week, 6+ day ago (184+ words) New fossil suggests bird courtship displays are at least 121 million years old....
100, 000-Year-Old Bones in Ethiopia May Point to the Earliest Human Cremation
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (304+ words) Burned fossils reveal a vivid snapshot of early Homo sapiens life....
People Were Fitted With Wings in VR and Their Brains Started Treating Them Almost Like Body Parts
3+ week, 2+ day ago (172+ words) After VR flight training, human brains began treating wings more like limbs....
A New T. rex Has Been Discovered. But This One Ruled The Sea
3+ week, 2+ day ago (424+ words) Scientists identify a giant Texas mosasaur with serrated teeth and a brutal bite....
Scientists Have a New Idea for Why T. rex Had Such Tiny Arms
3+ week, 6+ day ago (885+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology New research links shrunken dinosaur arms to skulls built for attack. We've all seen the jokes about Tyrannosaurus rex and its tiny arms. One of the most fearsome predators ever to walk the Earth somehow ended up…...
The Two Million Years Rain Crisis That Helped the Dinosaurs Take Over
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (566+ words) This was one of the messiest climate events....
This 25 Million Year Old Platypus Had Teeth Built to Crack Open Armored Prey
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (542+ words) New fossils reveal an ancient platypus with teeth, power and a vanished world....
Paleontologists Discover 62-foot Kraken-like Octopus That Ruled the Cretaceous Ocean
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1192+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology Ancient finned octopuses may have been among the ocean's top predators A fossil beak from an ancient octopus has forced scientists to rethink who ruled the Cretaceous seas. Researchers say two extinct species of finned octopus may…...
Anglerfish Turned a Simple Fin Into the Ultimate Fishing Tool. But It Took 70 Million Years
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (685+ words) A simple fin became the ocean's most sophisticated hunting tool. Anglerfishes look almost too cartoonishly gruesome to be true, especially the famous rod bait dangling in front of the grim mouth with oversized teeth. But a new study describes how…...