Jurassic Fossil Links Ancient Crocodiles With Dolphin-Like Animals
A 180 million-year-old fossil has shed light on how some ancient crocodiles evolved into dolphin-like animals. The specimen – featuring a large portion of backbone…
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Astrophysicists Create New Method to Measure Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
Astrophysicists from the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at the…
New Chimpanzee Research Sheds Light on Human Evolution
New research from the University of Edinburgh reveals that Chimpanzee brains may be more different from those of humans than was previously thought. The study…
New Research Shows Greenland Ice Sheet Movement is Decreasing Despite Warming
A newly published study from the University of Edinburgh shows that the movement of the southwest portion of the Greenland Ice Sheet that terminates on…
Zhenyuanlong Suni – The Newly Discovered Feathered Cousin of the Velociraptor
Paleontologists working in China unearthed the fossil remains of one of the closest cousins of Velociraptor, but it looks just like a bird. This newly…
Biologists Grow a Living Organ from Lab-Created Cells
Scientists from the MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh have grown a fully functional organ from scratch in a living animal…