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Dinosaurs Skinnier Than Previously Thought
ByStevenThe discovery may change the way we imagine and depict dinosaurs. A new method for measuring the weight and size of dinosaurs has found that these animals weighed less than previously estimated. A huge Brachiosaur, once thought to weigh 176,370 pounds, is now believed to have weighed 50,706 pounds. The researchers believe all dinosaurs were…
Where Humans Split from Sharks
ByStevenCommon Ancestor Comes Into Focus ScienceDaily — The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark, according to a new analysis of the braincase of a 290-million-year-old fossil fish that has long puzzled paleontologists.New research on Acanthodes bronni, a fish from the Paleozoic era, sheds light on the evolution of the earliest…
Mammoth Task: Plan To Clone Ice Age Beast
ByStevenThe giant, Ice Age animal last roamed the Earth some 10,000 years ago Sky News – 9:26pm UK, Tuesday March 13, 2012 South Korean and Russian scientists have vowed to work together in an attempt to clone a woolly mammoth from remains found in Siberia. The giant Ice Age animal last roamed the Earth some…
Meerkat Team Huddle
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Cyborg Snail Power!
ByStevenSnails have joined the growing ranks of animals whose own metabolism can be used to generate electricity. The dozen or so brown garden snails crawling around the plastic, moss-filled terrarium in Evgeny Katz’s laboratory look normal, but they have a hidden superpower: they produce electricity. Into each mollusc, Katz and his team at Clarkson University…

