Megalara garuda: the King of Wasps
A new and unusual wasp species has been discovered during an expedition to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
A new and unusual wasp species has been discovered during an expedition to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2012
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Rolling from his surfboard, blood gushing from the wound where a shark had just ripped a big chunk of flesh from his thigh, Australian Glen Folkard had just one thought: "I'm alive."
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2012
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Two new horned dinosaurs have been named based on fossils collected from Alberta, Canada. The new species, Unescopceratops koppelhusae and Gryphoceratops morrisoni, are from the Leptoceratopsidae family of horned dinosaurs. ...
Archaeology
Mar 12, 2012
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New research from the University suggests that many of the common orthodontic problems experienced by people in industrialised nations is due to their soft modern diet causing the jaw to grow too short and small relative ...
Other
Mar 7, 2012
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Research at the University of Liverpool, using computer models to reconstruct the jaw muscle of Tyrannosaurus rex, has suggested that the dinosaur had the most powerful bite of any living or extinct terrestrial animal.
Archaeology
Feb 28, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 66 million years ago, the fearsome, meat-eating dinosaur Majungasaurus crenatissimus prowled the semi-arid lowlands of Madagascar. Its powerful jaws bristled with bladelike teeth, and its strong legs terminated ...
Archaeology
Jan 11, 2012
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Almost all gnathostomes or jawed vertebrates (including osteichthyans, chondrichthyans, acanthodians and most placoderms) possess paired pectoral and pelvic fins. To date, it has generally been believed that antiarch ...
Archaeology
Jan 10, 2012
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Biologists have long assumed that all jawed vertebrates possess a full complement of nearly identical genes for critical aspects of their development. But a paper in the December 16 issue of Science with Benjamin King of ...
Biotechnology
Dec 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many a parent has lamented the crowding of their children’s teeth indicating impending orthodontia bills, but few no doubt have wondered quite as deeply as Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, an anthropologist ...
The timing, process and archeology of the peopling of Europe by early modern humans have been actively debated for more than a century. Reassessment of the anatomy and dating of a fragmentary upper jaw with three teeth from ...
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2011
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