What’s the Largest Current on Earth? It Moves More Water Than Every River Combined—Many Times Over
Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Earth’s mightiest current has no banks. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC,…
This 25 Million Year Old Platypus Had Teeth Built to Crack Open Armored Prey
Artistic reconstruction of Obdurodon in its natural environment. Credit: Gen Conway/Flinders University Paleontology Lab The platypus is already…
Early Platypuses Had Strong Teeth and Powerful Jaws, Fossils Show
New fossils from the Namba Formation of South Australia reveal that 25 million years ago, Obdurodon insignis —…
Bizarre Mammalodontid Whales Inhabited Australian Waters 25 Million Years Ago
Tiny, toothed mammalodontids were among the strangest of all whales. If alive today, they would be as iconically…