The Dragon Mothers

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28/11/2019

First Vertebrates Evolved in Shallow Water

The paucity of fossils from the time of the earliest vertebrates—around 480 million years ago—has made it hard to definitively determine the types of habitats where backbones first evolved. But predictions based on the fossil data that do exist suggest all the various forms of the first vertebra...

28/11/2019

South Africa’s rhino poaching trends show a slight decrease—but death toll remains too high

New rhino poaching numbers out of South Africa show a small decrease from the previous year, but the death toll remains perilously high. The South African Department of Environmental Affairs announced that poachers killed 1,028 rhinos in 2017, down from 1,054 in 2016. Officials recorded a record los...

28/11/2019

9 Kinds of Entertainment No Animal Lover Should Take Part In

A normal adult person would never take their child to watch a dog fight because it’s cruel and immoral. But a circus or a dolphin show seem like something completely different. It’s possible that some people either don’t know or prefer to ignore the obvious: sometimes, the kinds of entertainme...

28/11/2019

Scared by Spiders? Get Over It!

You should be grateful to have Halloween’s creepiest creature around Halloween is for celebrating the scary: imaginary monsters—ghouls, goblins and ghosts—along with real but scary-seeming creatures such as bats, black cats and spiders. It’s also the one time of year people buy fake cobwebs ...

28/11/2019

Dinosaurs Had Birdlike Lungs

A new study proposes that all dinosaurs shared a basic lung anatomy which may have given them an evolutionary edge Some of the most fascinating, and contentious, aspects of dinosaur life are the parts we can’t see. What I’m talking about are the soft tissues of animals like Tyrannosaurus and Tri...

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