During fieldwork aimed at documenting the stone tool use of a group of wild chimpanzees in the Taï Forest in Cote d'Ivoire in early 2022, the researchers identified and 3D-scanned a variety of stone tools used to crack different ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2022
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In an ancient shallow bay of what is now Montana, the body of an octopus-like creature the size of a fist was buried on the seafloor. Some 325–328 million years later, a new paper published in Nature Communications provides ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 9, 2022
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The Australian National Maritime Museum has announced a shipwreck found in Newport Harbour, off Rhode Island in the United States, has been confirmed as Captain Cook's ship, HMB Endeavour.
Archaeology
Feb 3, 2022
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Researchers have conducted a new analysis of the origins of "bird-hipped" dinosaurs—the group which includes iconic species such as Triceratops—and found that they likely evolved from a group of animals known as silesaurs, ...
Evolution
Sep 22, 2022
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Of all the mammals, bats have one of the poorest fossil records, with paleontologists estimating that about 80% of it is missing.
Evolution
Oct 19, 2023
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A cherry from the "Sweet" family, cross-bred by the University of Bologna, holds the Guinness World Record for being the world's heaviest cherry. This "Sweet Stephany" cherry comes from Salvi's experimental cherry garden ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2021
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Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution.
Evolution
Sep 21, 2023
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A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE explores the weight great fossil sites have on our understanding of evolutionary relationships between fossil groups—the lagerstätten effect—and for the first time, has quantified ...
Evolution
Feb 14, 2024
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Scientists at the University of South Florida have reached a new milestone in the development of two-dimensional supramolecules—the building blocks that make areas of nanotechnology and nanomaterial advancement possible.
Nanophysics
Apr 16, 2020
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A reedy pipe and a high-pitched trill duet against the backdrop of a low-pitched insect drone. Their symphony is the sound of a forest, and is monitored by scientists to gauge biodiversity.
Ecology
Oct 22, 2023
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