AvatarGiandomenico OrlandoScience Pterosaurs with thumbs? Scientists say yes, a "monkeydactyl" once existed verified_publisherSalonIf you can, try to imagine a pterodactyl combined with a monkey. It's an absurd image, like Pterri from "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" crossed with King Kong. Absurd as it might seem, such a thing existed at one...
AvatarGiandomenico OrlandoBiology A rich marine algal ecosystem existed 600 million years earlier than previously thought phys.org - Birgitte Svennevig The first photosynthetic oxygen-producing organisms on Earth were cyanobacteria. Their evolution dramatically changed the Earth allowing oxygen to …
AvatarGiandomenico OrlandoDinosaurs ‘Godzilla Shark’ with 12 rows of teeth now has an official name — inspired by dragons macon.com - Maddie Capron A graduate student pierced a pocket knife through shaley limestones in New Mexico, not expecting to find much. That student — John-Paul Hodnett — was …
AvatarGiandomenico OrlandoPhysical Geography ‘That’s a lot of teeth’: 2.5 billion T rex walked the earth, researchers find verified_publisherThe Guardian - Associated PressOne Tyrannosaurus rex seems scary enough. Now picture 2.5 billion of them. That’s how many of the fierce dinosaur king probably roamed Earth over the course of a couple of million years, a new study finds....
AvatarGiandomenico OrlandoNeanderthals DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared sciencemag.org - Ann Gibbons Estatuas cave in northern Spain was a hive of activity 105,000 years ago. Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered …
