A recently re-examined fossil from Brazil has revealed one of the rarest phenomena ever recorded in prehistoric life: a two-headed reptile dating back to the Early Cretaceous period, roughly 120 million years ago. The discovery, detailed in a peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The fossil preserves an incredibly rare case of bicephaly, a condition …
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A study published in PeerJ by paleontologists Sven Sachs and Daniel Madzia has reclassified a nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton found in 1978 in Holzmaden, Germany, as a new genus and species. Named Plesionectes longicollum, this Early Jurassic marine reptile had an extraordinarily long neck and unique skeletal features that challenge previous ideas about plesiosaur evolution during the Toarcian stage, about …
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Astronomers have spotted a variety of weirdly blinking phenomena out there in the big wide Milky Way through history, but a newly discovered pulsating object truly appears to be one of a kind. Located several thousand light-years away, the object named CHIME J1634+44 is a rare case of a cosmic light that brightens and fades over inexplicably long timescales. A …
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