Worlds Largest “Raptor” Dinosaurs Lived 10 Million Years Earlier Than Thought
The Utahraptor, the world’s largest “raptor” dinosaur, is now estimated to be 135 million years old, 10 million years older than previously thought. The discovery…
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Ancient California Fossil Unlocks Secrets of Coffee and Potato Ancestors’ Survival Amid Dinosaur Extinction
An ancient 80-million-year-old fossil plant rewrites the history of lamiids, revealing that these flowering plants, including staple crops, evolved earlier than previously believed and suggesting…
“Going Where No Primate Has Gone Before”: Scientists Identify New Species of Near-Primates
The fossils were found on Ellesmere Island, located in Nunavut, Canada, within sedimentary layers associated with the early Eocene epoch, potentially providing insight into how…
Unlocking Effective Weight Loss: Investigating the Impact of “Hyper-Palatable” Foods Across Four Diets
If losing weight was among your 2023 resolutions, findings by researchers from the University of Kansas and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may provide…
Glowing Spider Fossils Prompt Breakthrough Research on Treasure Trove of Amazingly Well-Preserved Specimens
Glowing spider fossils prompt breakthrough study of how they were preserved at Aix-en-Provence. A geologic formation near Aix-en-Provence, France, is renowned as one of the…
Peering Into the Inner Workings of Evolution With Jellyfish Eyes
Some jellyfish have simple eyes; some have complex ones. Other jellyfish have no eyes at all. Indeed, recent research has shown jellyfish eyes in different…
Freaky Fanged Frog Discovered in the Philippines
Researchers at the University of Kansas have described a new species of fanged frog discovered in the Philippines that’s nearly indistinguishable from a species on…
Researchers Examine “Godzilla” – The Record-Shattering 2020 Trans-Atlantic Dust Storm
For two weeks in June 2020, a massive dust plume from Saharan Africa crept westward across the Atlantic, blanketing the Caribbean and Gulf Coast states…
Remarkable New Species of Snake Found Hidden in a Biodiversity Collection – Occupies Its Own Branch on Snake Tree of Life
Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake occupies its own branch on snake tree of life. To be fair, the newly described Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake (Levitonius mirus)…
“Cold Quasar” Forming New Stars in Spite of Active Galactic Nucleus Puzzles Astronomers
Researchers from the University of Kansas have described a galaxy more than 5.25 billion light-years away undergoing a rarely seen stage in its galactic life…
Highly Unusual “Hot Neptune” Exoplanet 260 Light Years Away That “Shouldn’t Exist”
A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA’s TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the…
Stellar Explosion Blamed for Mass Extinction Event on Earth 360 Million Years Ago
Between a decline in biodiversity and a series of extinction events, the Late Devonian period was not the most hospitable time on Earth. And then…
18 New Species of Aquatic Beetle in South America Discovered by Undergraduate Student
It would be striking for a seasoned entomologist with decades of fieldwork to discover such a large number of species unknown to science. But for…
Ancient Sea-Worm Mystery Solved by Student After 50 Years in “Wastebasket”
When a partial fossil specimen of a primordial marine worm was unearthed in Utah in 1969, scientists had a tough go identifying it. Usually, such…
This Ancient “Giant Spider” Fossil Surprised Paleontologists – Detective Work Revealed a Hoax
A ‘Jackalope’ of an Ancient Spider Fossil Deemed a Hoax Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian…
Skipping the Sweet Treats Helps You Avoid the Holiday Blues
If you’re prone to depression, this holiday season you might want to say “bah humbug” to offers of sugar plum pudding, caramel corn, and chocolate…
Deeper Insight Into 2019 Fires From Satellite Study of Amazon Rainforest
Throughout August and early September 2019, media around the world have reported on the extensive forest fires ravaging Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Much of the concern…
Near Misses at Large Hadron Collider Shed Light on the Behavior of Gluons
New findings from University of Kansas experimental nuclear physicists Daniel Tapia Takaki and Aleksandr (Sasha) Bylinkin were just published in the European Physical Journal C….
