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Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoDungeon Rock itself is a rock formation in Lynn Woods reservation, where in 1852, a man excavated a...
There Are More Animals That Start With 'X' Than You'd Expect
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 days agoScientists have developed several methods for grouping different members of the animal kingdom by species or unique characteristics. However, there is arguably no better method ...
308-Million-Year-Old Fossil Arachnid Is An 8-Legged Evolutionary Puzzle
IFLScience· 2 hours agoThis leggy, spiny fella is Douglassarachne acanthopoda, whom we’ll call Doug for short (only...
Who needs Jurassic Park? Charlotte-area museum to welcome its own ‘Hall of Dinosaurs’
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAnd all our knowledge about dinosaurs and about prehistoric life in general is all based on geology,...
Study reveals when the first warm-blooded dinosaurs roamed Earth
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDinosaurs were initially cold-blooded, but global warming 180 million years ago may have triggered...
John Mulaney's 'Everybody's in L.A.': A guide to the hyperlocal references
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 days agoShe described the pits as "the most important Ice Age fossil site in the world," but tar pits is a misnomer — it's actually asphalt that bubbles up through the site. That asphalt is what trapped ...
Could Eating Yogurt Help Strengthen Your Bones?
Mercola· 2 days agoYogurt was probably one of the first-ever "processed" foods, as it was created as a happy accident somewhere in Central Asia as early as the Neolithic Age, 4,500 years before the Common Era, ...
Could you live on one of the world's most remote inhabited islands?
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFrom palm-fringed atolls in the blue Pacific to scientific research outposts in the frigid Antarctic...
Inside the Wild Ways Many Creatures Make Milk
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoMilk seems to set mammals apart. The very name of our beastly family, after all, comes from the word mammae, a term for the chest glands that produce...
Murder and Mayhem: Archaeologists Uncover Brutal Reality of Andean Societal Change
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoExamination of skeletons unearthed from a graveyard dating back to 500-400 BCE, just after the Chavín culture’s decline, showed fatal wounds on men, women, and children, along with evidence ...