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Three well-preserved specimens of a new gigantic dinosaur species, named Lavocatisaurus agrioensis, have been discovered by a multinational team of scientists in the Argentine province of Neuquén. The remains an adult and two juveniles reptiles which roamed the Earth some 110 million years ago, were unearthed by a team of Argentine and Spanish paleontologists. The […]
Imagine you’re a biologist with camera traps in the savanna or samples of algae from a bloom in Florida waterways. If you pinpoint endangered species’ migration corridors, your research could draw the boundaries of a new preserve. Determining which algae are blooming — and why — could have massive public health implications. Either way, the […]
New Zealand drinks company Old Mout Cider is trying to save the vulnerable creature and raise awareness of the kiwi’s plight in Britain. All we needed to do when we headed to Bestival earlier this month… was drink. Old Mout Cider had set up a Kiwi Camp at the festival which became a refuge to […]
The northern white rhino faces a grim fate when its last surviving examples are two infertile females. A novel scientific technique might just spare the species from extinction, however. Researchers have successfully created the first lab-made rhino embryos in a bid to give the northern white a second chance. The group collected eggs from southern […]
Thomas Hildebrandt has been collecting samples from the white rhinoceros with colleagues for about 15 years. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ab586b3f156f371db60903a/master/pass/sudan.jpg
Enlarge / A sapodilla, one of the fruits used by the native inhabitants of Central America. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Prehistoric humans helped spread edible fruit species across Central and South America, even as they wiped out the megafauna that had done so previously. In the process, we maintained and even expanded the plants’ habitats, increased […]
Enlarge (credit: Klaus Stiefel / Flickr) The direct chemical effect of our CO2 emissions on our planet’s oceans gets far less attention than the indirect effects caused by global warming. But CO2 lowers the seawater’s pH—known as “ocean acidification”—and this has been shown to be a serious problem for many species. Acidification makes it harder for […]
In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Star Wars Rebels gets a mid-season premiere date John Williams confirms he’ll be scoring Episode IX Snoke’s throne room design has an unlikely influence Matt the Radar Technician makes a grand return And much more! Let’s start, as every post on the Internet should, with Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi. […]
The goliath grouper is a giant fish that can be found in Florida waters. In the ’70s and ’80s, it was severely overfished, which led to regulations making it illegal to harvest. Following is a transcript of the video. Meet the goliath grouper. It’s been illegal to harvest them for 27 years. But that may […]
Published time: 20 Oct, 2017 21:19 Ancient ape teeth dating back more than 9 million years and discovered in Germany last year are raising questions about the timeline of human evolution. The two teeth, discovered in sediment of the Proto-Rhine River, are of an ape species whose remains have never before been observed in Europe. […]
