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A new fossil skull, dug out of purple siltstone in northern China, belongs to a creature that walked the planet about 259 million years ago. The animal was named Yinshanosaurus angustus, and the find helps fill a gap in the family tree of large plant‑eating reptiles that roamed just before the greatest die‑off in Earth’s history. Unearthing Yinshanosaurus angustus Dr. Jian …

Bertha was somehow found as a stray and taken to a local shelter, but how she’d survived as a stray remains a total mystery — because she weighed around 30 pounds. “I couldn’t even believe that she was a cat,” Jemma Omidian, Bertha’s mom, said in a video for The Dodo. “She couldn’t step into the litter box. She was …