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A fossilized dragonfly wing unearthed in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park has been identified as a brand-new species, marking the first dragonfly fossil ever found in Canada’s dinosaur-aged rocks. Credit: Alex Anderson Discovery reveals a previously undocumented 30-million-year gap in dragonfly evolution. For the first time in Canadian paleontology, a fossilized dragonfly wing from the Cretaceous period has been identified as …

Researchers in Taiwan have observed sheet web spiders (Psechrus clavis) capturing fireflies and leaving them glowing in their webs for up to an hour. This unusual tactic turns the fireflies’ mating signals into a deadly lure, with other insects attracted to the light before becoming trapped themselves. Keen to find out more about the hunting strategy, scientists from Tunghai University devised a …

Two evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered  Reuters The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps  Nature Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright  The New York Times New Research Reveals How Reshaping Pelvis Helped Human Ancestors Walk Upright  Sci.News Irish scientist helps crack mystery of how humans came to stand on two legs  The Irish Independent Source link

A fresh round of trenching in southern Peru has uncovered a new copper-rich zone that’s drawing attention. The discovery comes from Camino Minerals’ Los Chapitos project in the central Andes, adding another find to a district that continues to deliver copper. The new mineralization sits in the Mirador zone along the Diva trend, where Camino Minerals reports copper paired with …

In a groundbreaking discovery reported by CGTN, paleontologists in Zhucheng, China, have unearthed a massive tyrannosaur fossil that could rival “Sue,” the largest T. rex. The find, including a giant thigh bone and vertebra, suggests a creature over 12 meters long, potentially reshaping our understanding of dinosaur origins. The Zhuchengtyrannus Magnus Discovery The recent fossil discovery includes a remarkable thigh …

A nearby star has a new heavyweight companion, and it swings around on a path that is anything but neat. The world, labeled GJ 2126 b, traces a stretched orbit that pushes close to its star, then races far away again. In new observations, researchers identified a giant world 124 light years away that circles its star every 272.7 days …

In 2016, geologists discovered an extraordinary phenomenon deep beneath a Canadian mine—a water source trapped in rock for over 2.6 billion years. This discovery, published in Nature, has provided unprecedented insights into the survival of ancient microbial life and the water’s ability to exist without exposure to sunlight for such vast periods of time. What’s more, the water is still …

Back in 2016, deep inside a Canadian mine, geologists stumbled upon something extraordinary. At nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, they found water that had been sealed away for up to 2.64 billion years, the oldest known water on Earth. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species with a very distinctive feature, a sail-like structure running down its back, the Natural History Museum in London announced on Friday. The bones of Istiorachis macarthurae, named in honor of record-breaking British sailor Ellen MacArthur, were uncovered on the Isle of Wight, a small island just off the south …

LONDON — A former PhD student analyzing 125-million-year-old fossils has made waves with the discovery of a new species of dinosaur that had a sail on its back. The findings, published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology on Friday, relate to fossils originally excavated in the 1970s on the Isle of Wight, a small island off England’s south coast. The …