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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
19+ hour, 20+ min 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…...
Ancient Fossil Carpel-Like Organs Push Back Flowering Plant Origins
1+ day, 23+ 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…...
Extinction is forever | Paleontology
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (54+ words) K.J. Genualdo • about 3 hours ago Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:55PM EDT Resolution: (1602px x 2048px) File size: 480 KB 11 views (11 from today) extinction, paleo art, art...
In 98 years of the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment, nine drops have fallen and no human has ever seen one land
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1083+ words) The University of Queensland pitch drop experiment has been running since 1927, dripped nine times, and never once been seen falling by a human eye. The tenth drop is now forming. By The Long View Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Inside…...
Genomic evidence identifies the origin of goosegrass on Nishinoshima, a newly emerged volcanic island
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (107+ words) Credit: Takashi Kamijo, University of Tsukuba This study provides rare genetic evidence of how plants colonize newly formed volcanic islands and offers important insights into the earliest stages of ecosystem establishment in isolated oceanic environments. The findings also highlight the…...
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: Fossil Flowers of Ancient Lianas Preserved in Amber Reveal the Evolution of Tropical Rainforests
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (468+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:52 Amber-preserved flowers from Southeast China show that lianas were already an established component of tropical rainforests 15 million years ago, during the Miocene. Researchers from China, France, Germany and…...
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: 100 Years of the Society for Mammalogy: from field observation to genome analysis
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (273+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:02 Over the past 100 years, mammalogy has undergone a fundamental transformation: what was once a predominantly descriptive discipline has evolved into a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary field of research, the findings…...
Stratigraphic rationale for rejecting the Anthropocene epoch proposal - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (285+ words) Nature Reviews Earth & Environment volume 7, pages 565–566 (2026) Cite this article The rejection of the proposal for Anthropocene as a formal epoch of the Geological Time Scale has attracted wide interest in the stratigraphic aspects of the debate. Here, we clarify the…...
Scientists Bring a Gal??pagos Plant Back From the Brink of Extinction
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (510+ words) The Galápagos snapdragon, once close to disappearing, is showing encouraging signs of recovery through a long-term partnership between the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park Directorate. For decades, the Galápagos snapdragon was known from little more than a…...
Date seeds dug out of Herod's fortress at Masada and three other Judean desert sites sat in storage at room temperature for decades, and when a team soaked thirty-three of them and potted thirty-two, six grew into living palms whose seed shells date to between the fourth century BCE and the second century CE once a correction for modern carbon absorbed during growth is applied
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (291+ words) Seven ancient Judean date seeds have been germinated and genotyped. That the seeds grew is not what the one critic to respond on the paper's own page contests. What he questions is whether the radiocarbon dates record when they grew....