Tiny Teeth Reveal Early Spread of Proto-monkeys in North America
Almost 66 million years ago, an animal that looked like a rat, or maybe a squirrel, died in…
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts
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Scientists Unearth a Scimitar-Crested “Hell Heron” During a Daunting Sahara Desert Expedition
A new “scimitar-crested” spinosaurid, officially named Spinosaurus mirabilis, has been uncovered in the Sahara Desert, marking a major…
Eliminating invasive predators | Nature Ecology & Evolution
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Ancient Kangaroos Were Heavier Than Grizzly Bears But Could Still Hop » Explorersweb
Thousands of years ago, the kangaroos roaming Australia were more than double the size of the modern ones.…
Did Humans Nearly Go Extinct 900,000 Years Ago? A Biologist Explains
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what…
Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas
Protected Planet Report 2020 (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, 2021). Pringle, R. M. Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity.…
Five rules for scientifically credible nature markets
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Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Sebé-Pedrós, A. et al. The dynamic regulatory genome of capsaspora and the origin of animal multicellularity. Cell 165,…
New Study Supports Sahelanthropus as the Earliest Hominin
For all the attention devoted to human evolution, we still don’t know who our direct ancestors were, let…
Cave of Wonders: Where Prehistoric Bees Made Nests in the Bones of Animals Eaten by Colossal Owls
– credit, Lazaro Viñola López via SWNS Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open,…
Anacondas Reached Their Enormous Size 12 Million Years Ago and Never Looked Back » Explorersweb
For as long as humans have known them, anacondas have been giants. The colossal snakes average four to…