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Fossils of 'sea phantom' flying reptile unearthed in Australia
Reuters via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoSea, which once covered what is now arid inland Australia, soared a formidable pterosaur - flying...
Big Banks Are Helping Big Oil Kill the Planet
Newsweek· 3 days agoTo say climate scientists are being ignored is an understatement. The planet is sliding past 1.5 degrees Celsius of heating. Heat waves and crop failures...
Newly discovered species found in Ecuador lives up to its name, A. miraculum
CNN.com· 1 day agoOn the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador, John L. Clark, a research botanist at Florida’s Marie...
Fact Check: About That 280M-Year-Old, 'Alien-Looking' Fossil Allegedly Found in Western Australia
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt's unknown what caused this catastrophic event. Still, NASA reports that it...that storm-driven...
"Miraculous" iridescent plant species discovered on mountain slopes
Newsweek· 2 days agoResearchers have identified a tiny new plant species with iridescent foliage in the Andes...
The Megafauna Mystery: Scientists Discover New Clues to What Happened to North America’s Largest...
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoFifty thousand years ago, North America was home to megafauna like mammoths and saber-toothed...
A visit to ‘Giants’ offers reflections on Black art – and lives
The Christian Science Monitor· 5 hours ago“Digging in the crates” is a phrase in hip-hop culture that describes how DJs would peruse music...
A Siberian Graveyard Reveals 800 Years Of Human-Mammoth Interactions
IFLScience· 4 days agoA so-called “mammoth graveyard" in Arctic Siberia has a lot to teach us about how humans and hairy...
Searching for a female partner for the world’s ‘loneliest’ plant
The Conversation· 2 days ago“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote palaeontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life. E. woodii is a member of the cycad family, heavy plants ...
This word was rejected by geologists. But it’s already taken over the world.
Washington Post· 5 days agoWhat do you call the current time period — when we humans are warming the atmosphere, acidifying the oceans, altering the land and leaving a literal mark on the planet? Not the Anthropocene, ...