The tiger shark is one of the largest predatory sharks known today. This shark is a cosmopolitan species occurring in all oceans worldwide. It is characterized by a striped pattern on its back, which is well marked in juveniles ...
Plants & Animals
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Powerful and squat stegosaurs are now one of the most recognizable dinosaurs: they are easily identified by the spines on the tail and the bony plates on the back—osteoderms. The representatives of this group lived about ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 18, 2021
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Their special mouthparts help snails adapt to a wide variety of food and habitats. A research team from the Zoological Institute of Kiel University (CAU) and the Center of Natural History (CeNak) of the University of Hamburg ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2021
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New research has revealed that the diets of early lizards and snakes, which lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago, were more varied and advanced than previously thought.
Evolution
Mar 2, 2021
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To help bring more awareness about pet's oral health, February is National Pet Dental Health Month in Canada and the United States.
Veterinary medicine
Feb 18, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China, along with one from Australia, one from Taiwan and one from the U.S., has found evidence that contradicts the finding of a prior effort that reported ...
Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfus in "Jaws," says that all sharks do is "swim and eat and make little sharks."
Ecology
Feb 3, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.K. and one in Germany has found evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans on Jersey island. In their paper published in Journal of ...
New study identifies a bizarre new species suggesting that giant marine lizards thrived before the asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 19, 2021
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Roughly 8,200 years ago, the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, housed a large burial ground where men, women and children of varying ages were buried. Many of the graves contain ...
Archaeology
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