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Acid Baths And Bacterial Egg Painting: How Birds Ran With Their Dinosaur Ancestry
IFLScience· 2 days agoBirds are dinosaurs. From the very first Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug up, through to the most peculiar adaptation of the dinosaurs’ only extant relatives, the exhibition displays ...
Exhibition explores how birds evolved from dinosaurs
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBirds: Brilliant and Bizarre has opened at London's Natural History Museum. The museum said the exhibition featured specimens of ancestors of modern birds and the first Tyrannosaurus ...
University cafeteria officially named after killer cannibal
Boing Boing· 2 days agoThe Alfred Packer Grill is a popular student cafeteria at the University of Colorado Boulder. What non-natives may not realize at first is that Alfred Packer was an admitted cannibal murderer ...
New discovery shows how the transition from scales to feathers happened in dinosaurs
Cosmos· 2 days agoIt is widely accepted that modern birds are descendants of dinosaurs. One need only look at a bird’s foot to see the unmistakable similarity to that of a theropod dinosaur such as Tyrannosaurus ...
David Redden, Who Brought Ingenuity to the Auction Block, Dies at 75
New York Times· 5 days agoOne hundred seventy-five cookie jars that belonged to Andy Warhol. The bat that Babe Ruth carried in...
Abbey's Road: In an era of chicken moms, be a chicken aunt. It's the best of both worlds
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIn an era of millennial moms keeping chickens, Abbey writes about how becoming a chicken aunt offers...
The Most Bizarrely-Named Cities in America
MediaFeed via AOL· 4 days agoIt’s easy to overlook strange place names once you get used to them, but as an Italian, I’m shocked that people in the U.S. actually live in cities and...
At Which Museum or Venue Would You Like to Spend the Night?
New York Times· 4 days agoWhere would you most love to have a sleepover? Or getting a chance to see the Terra Cotta Army in...
David Redden, who brought ingenuity to the auction block, dies at 75 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 3 days agoAs a vice chair of Sotheby’s, and as its longest-serving auctioneer, Mr. Redden had a touch of P.T....
Lake Shasta was home to Shastasaurus, sea lizards, these other prehistoric marine reptiles
Redding Record Searchlight via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThat would make Shastasaurus one of the largest marine reptiles ever found, Kelley said, and almost...
