After a 17-year wait, cicadas emerge a little early in Chicago area: 'It's a milestone'
It's official, Chicagoland. Periodical cicadas have arrived.
Ecology
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Transformation and mechanisms of climate wet/dry change on the northern Tibetan Plateau under global warming
Historical patterns of climate change can provide ways to predict future climate change. During geological history, the earth has experienced many warm periods of different time scales, such as the mid-Holocene warm period, ...
Earth Sciences
May 16, 2024
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First 'warm-blooded' dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million years ago
The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago, suggests a new study led by UCL and University ...
Evolution
May 15, 2024
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Discovery of the first ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs
Who were the earliest ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs? A Ph.D. student from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), with the support of a CNRS researcher, has identified a fossil that fills the gap between ...
Evolution
May 14, 2024
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Archaeologists excavate medieval timber hall at historic Skipsea site
A team of archaeologists at the University of York have returned to Skipsea in East Yorkshire to excavate the remains of a medieval timber hall uncovered near the site of a Norman castle.
Archaeology
May 14, 2024
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Deadly brain disease found in two California deer
State officials have reported the presence of deadly chronic wasting disease in two wild California deer. This is the first time the disease, which has plagued other areas of the nation for years, has appeared in the state's ...
Plants & Animals
May 10, 2024
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Discovery of ancient Glaswegian shrimp fossil reveals new species
A short but robust little shrimp may have died out over 330 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, but the rare Scottish shellfish has been revitalized as a new species to science and as a Glaswegian.
Plants & Animals
May 8, 2024
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TOI-837 b is a young Saturn-sized exoplanet with a massive core, observations find
European astronomers have performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a distant giant exoplanet known as TOI-837 b. As a result, they found that TOI-837 b is a young Saturn-sized planet containing a massive core, ...
Archaeology team discovers a 7,000-year-old settlement in Serbia
Together with cooperation partners from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia), the National Museum Zrenjanin and the National Museum Pančevo, a team from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence has discovered a previously ...
Archaeology
Apr 30, 2024
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Cicada-palooza! Billions of bugs to blanket America
They're loud. They're sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month up to a trillion of them will engulf suburbs and woodlands across America.
Ecology
Apr 27, 2024
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