The claim: Livestock is the biggest contributor to climate change Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been at the center of global efforts to fight climate change, but the main driver of these harmful emissions continues to be debated on social media. A November 20 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows text next to a …
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The fossilized remains of a small, sharp-toothed lizard, left in a closet for more than half a century, pushed back the origins of the group that encompasses modern snakes and lizards by tens of millions of years. The specimen was collected in the 1950s from a quarry near Tortworth in Gloucestershire by the late fossil …
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Artist’s reconstruction of the last known toothed bird, Janavis finalidens, in its native environment surrounded by the concomitant “wonderchicken”, Asteriornis. 66.7 million years ago, parts of Belgium were covered by shallow seas and conditions were similar to modern tropical beaches in places like the Bahamas. Janavis was a very large seabird, with long wings and …
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Fossil experts have primed the goose for a key tenet of avian evolution after finding a premodern bird from over 65 million years ago that could move its beak like modern fowl. The toothy animal was discovered in the 1990s by an amateur fossil collector at a quarry in Belgium and dates to around 66.7 …
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Summary: The fossil of a tiny 525-million-year-old sea creature with a preserved nervous system could resolve an age-old debate about arthropod brain evolution. Source: University of Arizona Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago could force a science textbook to rewrite brain evolution. A study published in …
Artist’s impression of a 525 million year old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal seafloor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite built by photosynthetic bacteria. Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld/University of Arizona Fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system resolve a century-old debate about brain evolution in arthropods, the most …
In many ways, the high energy prices of 2022 unintentionally favor renewables, as they are the cheapest form of energy and not dependent on the usual players (fracking, OPEC, Russia, etc.). So, coupled with concerns about climate change (and the extreme weather of 2022), voters in many countries are eager to address this issue, and …
The “exceptional” fossil of Fragrant daurlong from the Upper Cretaceous period of Inner Mongolia, China. (Image credit: Wang, X. et al. Scientific Reports (2022); (CC BY 4.0)) (opens in a new tab) More than 100 million years ago, a fearsome bird-like dinosaur was swept into a lake and transformed into an exceptional fossil in what …
Artist’s impression of a 525 million year old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal seafloor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite built by photosynthetic bacteria. Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld/University of Arizona Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago could force a science textbook to rewrite brain …
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image: Artist’s impression of a 525 million year old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal seabed, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite built by photosynthetic bacteria. see After Credit: Nicholas Strausfeld/University of Arizona Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago could force a science textbook …
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