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Remains of new species of brontosaurus-like sauropod discovered in Argentina
A team of Spanish and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the remains of a dinosaur that lived 110 million years ago in the center of the country, the National University of La Matanza revealed Friday. The remains came from three separate dinosaurs from the herbivorous group ...
Scientists launch plan to map genes of all complex life on earth
Scientists launched a vast project on Thursday to map the genetic code of all 1.5 million known species of complex life on Earth, aiming to complete the work within a decade. They described the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) as "the next moonshot for biology" after ...
Birds have more in common with dinosaurs than previously thought — they inherited colored eggs directly from their scaly ancestors, according to research released Wednesday. The evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds has been recognized for centuries, but ornithologists long believed that birds evolved their ...
Women's birth canals in Africa, Asia, America have different dimensions: study
The size and shape of women's birth canals vary depending on what part of the world they live in, but most medical textbooks are based on a European body type, scientists said Wednesday, warning of health risks. Differences in the depth and width of the ...
Snake species named after Darwin, fire god, Louisiana professor
A Louisiana professor is in heady company, honored by having one of three newly identified species of snakes from the Galapagos Islands named after him. "They named one after Charles Darwin — that's a no-brainer — and one after the Greek god of fire, and ...
Have you ever heard of macaws that blush? Researchers still don't quite understand how it works, but a French team has observed the phenomenon multiple times in a group of five captive blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna). They published their findings Wednesday in the journal PLOS One. Blue-and-yellow ...
How did the turtle get its shell? It sounds like the start of a fable, but it is something scientists have wondered for years, and new fossil research is providing some clues. The way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused ...
Set of teeth from ancient mega-shark found in rock on Australian beach
A rare set of teeth from a giant prehistoric mega-shark twice the size of the great white have been found on an Australian beach by a keen-eyed amateur enthusiast, scientists said Thursday. Philip Mullaly was strolling along an area known as a fossil hot spot ...
Stone tools recovered from an excavation in China suggest that our evolutionary forerunners trekked out of Africa earlier than we had thought. Until now, the oldest evidence of human-like creatures outside Africa came from 1.8-million-year-old artifacts and skulls found in the Georgian town of Dmanisi. ...
The nipples of women are far more varied than those of men, according to a study that challenges conventional theory. An axiom in evolutionary biology says the more important a body part, the less it will differ from person to person. We can't live without a ...
New Caledonian crows use mental pictures to twist twigs into hooks and make other tools, according to a provocative study that suggests the notoriously clever birds pass on successful designs to future generations, a hallmark of culture. "We find evidence for a specific type of ...
Mars' surface hardened quickly, boosting odds of life: study
The crust that encases rocky planets and makes possible the emergence of life took shape on Mars earlier than thought and at least 100 million years sooner than on Earth, researchers said Wednesday. Analyzing grains of the mineral zircon extracted from a Martian meteorite known ...
