The world of the dinosaurs just got a bit more bizarre with a newly discovered species of freshwater shark whose tiny teeth resemble the alien ships from the popular 1980s …read more Source:: Science
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More animal species under threat of extinction, new method shows
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•Currently approximately 600 species might be inaccurately assessed as non-threatened on the Red List of Threatened Species. More than a hundred others that couldn’t be assessed before, also appear to …read more Source:: Science
Cod: Loss of breeding grounds in warmer world
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•The chances of survival for the offspring of important fish species will dramatically worsen, if the 1.5 ° C target of the Paris Climate Agreement is not achieved. …read more Source:: Science
Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions
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•Today’s birds descend from a small number of bird species living before the dinosaur extinction. Some of the birds that went extinct, the enantiornithines, were actually more common than and …read more Source:: Science
150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish
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•Researchers have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony …read more Source:: Science
Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s unique computing power
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•Neuroscientists have discovered that human dendrites have very different electrical properties from those of other species. These differences may contribute to the enhanced computing power of the human brain. …read more Source:: Science
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
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•The sixth mass extinction is underway, this time caused by humans. A team of researchers have calculated that species are dying out so quickly that nature’s built-in defense mechanism, evolution, …read more Source:: Science
Ledumahadi mafube: South Africa’s new jurassic giant
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•A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tons and stood about four meters …read more Source:: Science
We are bombarded by thousands of diverse species and chemicals
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•Scientists have measured the human ‘exposome,’ or the particulates, chemicals and microbes that individually swaddle us all, in unprecedented detail. …read more Source:: Science
Giving tortoises a ‘head start’
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•Research indicates that head-starting — raising a species in captivity and releasing it into a protected habitat after it has grown large enough to be less vulnerable to predators — …read more Source:: Science