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Image credit: Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki." /></a></div> <div class="recentpost-cont-holder"> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 27, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/scinews" >News Staff</a></div> <div class="post-content-big"><p>Paleontologists from Sweden and Poland have examined hundreds of fossilized samples of feces and vomit from the Polish Basin in central Europe to reconstruct the rise of the dinosaurs to become the dominant players in Earth’s ancient ecosystems. Fossil feces of the bone-crushing archosaur Smok, with a Smok reconstruction in the background. Image credit: Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki. 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Life reconstruction...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/terastiodontosaurus-marcelosanchezi-13448.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/uncus-dzaugisi-13441.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13441-Uncus-dzaugisi-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="Digital photographs and 3D laser scans of Uncus dzaugisi body fossils. Scale bars - 10 mm. 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Image credit: Sergiodlarosa / CC BY-SA 3.0." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13439f-Homotherium-serum-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13439f-Homotherium-serum-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13439f-Homotherium-serum-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13439f-Homotherium-serum.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/homotherium-latidens-cub-13439.html" rel="bookmark"> 36,000-Year-Old Scimitar-Toothed Cat Cub Found in Yakutian Permafrost </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 19, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/delazaro" >Enrico de Lazaro</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>The 36,000-year-old frozen specimen from Yakutia belongs to Homotherium latidens, a species of scimitar-toothed cat that inhabited Eurasia during the Pliocene...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/homotherium-latidens-cub-13439.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/dianmeisaurus-mutaensis-13434.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2023/01/image_11551f-Wumengosaurus-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="An artist’s impression of Wumengosaurus, a sister taxon of Honghesaurus longicaudal. Image credit: Nobu Tamura / CC BY-SA 4.0." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2023/01/image_11551f-Wumengosaurus-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2023/01/image_11551f-Wumengosaurus-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2023/01/image_11551f-Wumengosaurus-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2023/01/image_11551f-Wumengosaurus.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/dianmeisaurus-mutaensis-13434.html" rel="bookmark"> New Species of Triassic Marine Reptile Discovered </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 18, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/delazaro" >Enrico de Lazaro</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>Paleontologists have described a new species of pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China. The holotype of Dianmeisaurus mutaensis...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/dianmeisaurus-mutaensis-13434.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/skiphosoura-bavarica-13432.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13432f-Skiphosoura-bavarica-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13432f-Skiphosoura-bavarica-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13432f-Skiphosoura-bavarica-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13432f-Skiphosoura-bavarica-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13432f-Skiphosoura-bavarica.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/skiphosoura-bavarica-13432.html" rel="bookmark"> Jurassic Pterosaur Had Unusually Short, but Stiff and Pointed Tail </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 18, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/scinews" >News Staff</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>Skiphosoura bavarica, a species of pterosaur that lived around 149 million years ago in what is now southern Germany, bridges the gaps between the early...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/skiphosoura-bavarica-13432.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/waukeshaaspis-eatonae-13429.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13429f-Waukeshaaspis-eatonae-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="The Silurian trilobite Waukeshaaspis eatonae, from the Silurian Waukesha Biota of Wisconsin, USA. Image credit: Kenneth Gass, specimen deposited in the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13429f-Waukeshaaspis-eatonae-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13429f-Waukeshaaspis-eatonae-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13429f-Waukeshaaspis-eatonae-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13429f-Waukeshaaspis-eatonae.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/waukeshaaspis-eatonae-13429.html" rel="bookmark"> Role Changing of Trilobite Body Parts </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 15, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/gassrandolfe" >Kenneth C. Gass & Enrique Alberto Randolfe</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>A newly-described genus and species of trilobite is a unique example of an animal changing the form and apparent function of one of its morphological features...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/waukeshaaspis-eatonae-13429.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/navaornis-hestiae-13425.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13425f-Navaornis-hestiae-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="An artist’s impression of Navaornis hestiae. Image credit: Júlia D’Oliveira." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13425f-Navaornis-hestiae-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13425f-Navaornis-hestiae-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13425f-Navaornis-hestiae-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13425f-Navaornis-hestiae.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/navaornis-hestiae-13425.html" rel="bookmark"> 80-Million-Year-Old Enantiornithine Fossil Fills Gap between Archaeopteryx and Modern Birds </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 14, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/scinews" >News Staff</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>Paleontologists have unearthed the exquisitely preserved remains of Cretaceous enantiornithine bird in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. The extraordinary...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/navaornis-hestiae-13425.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/pine-island-amber-13417.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13417f-Pine-Island-Amber-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="Pine Island amber. Scale bars - 50 μm. Image credit: Klages et al., doi: 10.1017/S0954102024000208." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13417f-Pine-Island-Amber-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13417f-Pine-Island-Amber-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13417f-Pine-Island-Amber-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13417f-Pine-Island-Amber.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/pine-island-amber-13417.html" rel="bookmark"> Amber Discovered in Antarctica for the First Time </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 12, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/delazaro" >Enrico de Lazaro</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>The first ever piece of the Antarctic amber was found in a sediment core from the mid-shelf section of Pine Island trough in Antarctica. Pine Island amber....<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/pine-island-amber-13417.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/huaxiazhoulong-shouwen-13414.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13414f-Huaxiazhoulong-shouwen-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="The artistic reconstruction of Huaxiazhoulong shouwen. Image credit: Ye Jianhao." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13414f-Huaxiazhoulong-shouwen-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13414f-Huaxiazhoulong-shouwen-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13414f-Huaxiazhoulong-shouwen-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13414f-Huaxiazhoulong-shouwen.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/huaxiazhoulong-shouwen-13414.html" rel="bookmark"> Paleontologists Discover New Species of Ankylosaurid Dinosaur </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 11, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/anderson" >Natali Anderson</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China. The artistic reconstruction...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/huaxiazhoulong-shouwen-13414.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/yuanyanglong-bainian-13401.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13401f-Yuanyanglong-bainian-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="Life reconstruction of Yuanyanglong bainian. Image credit: Sci.News / Ddinodan." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13401f-Yuanyanglong-bainian-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13401f-Yuanyanglong-bainian-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13401f-Yuanyanglong-bainian-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13401f-Yuanyanglong-bainian.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/yuanyanglong-bainian-13401.html" rel="bookmark"> New Oviraptorosaur Species Discovered in China </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 5, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/delazaro" >Enrico de Lazaro</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China. Life reconstruction...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/yuanyanglong-bainian-13401.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/terror-bird-fossil-colombia-13394.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13394_1-Paraphysornis-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="A model of Paraphysornis at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Image credit: Armin Reindl / CC BY-SA 4.0." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13394_1-Paraphysornis-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13394_1-Paraphysornis-316x176.jpg 316w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/terror-bird-fossil-colombia-13394.html" rel="bookmark"> Fossil of Huge Terror Bird Found in Colombia </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Nov 4, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/scinews" >News Staff</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>Paleontologists have unearthed and examined a fossilized leg bone of a phorusrhacid bird that lived 12 million years ago in South America. A model of Paraphysornis...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/terror-bird-fossil-colombia-13394.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/notobatrachus-degiustoi-tadpole-13390.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13390f-Notobatrachus-degiustoi-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="Life reconstruction of tadpoles and adults of Notobatrachus degiustoi. Image credit: Gabriel Lio." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13390f-Notobatrachus-degiustoi-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13390f-Notobatrachus-degiustoi-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13390f-Notobatrachus-degiustoi-316x176.jpg 316w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13390f-Notobatrachus-degiustoi.jpg 710w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/notobatrachus-degiustoi-tadpole-13390.html" rel="bookmark"> 161-Million-Year-Old Fossil is the Oldest Known Tadpole </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Oct 31, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/scinews" >News Staff</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>Paleontologists have discovered the well-preserved fossilized remains of a tadpole of the early anuran species Notobatrachus degiustoi at the locality...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/notobatrachus-degiustoi-tadpole-13390.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/end-triassic-mass-extinction-mechanisms-13383.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13383-CAMP-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="Outcrop area of CAMP rocks in Pangea showing paleolatitudes at CAMP time (201 million years ago) of key localities with the terrestrial end-Triassic extinction including the Newark Basin (NB) in northeastern North America, the Fundy Basin (FB) of Atlantic Canada, and the Central High Atlas (CHA) Basin of Morocco. Image credit: Kent et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.2415486121." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13383-CAMP-195x110.jpg 195w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13383-CAMP-316x176.jpg 316w" sizes="(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-content-holder"> <div class="bottom-content-heading-0"> <h2><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/end-triassic-mass-extinction-mechanisms-13383.html" rel="bookmark"> New Research Casts More Light on Mechanisms of End-Triassic Mass Extinction </a></h2> </div> <div class="cb"></div> <div class="recentpost-dateauthor"> Oct 29, 2024 by <a href="https://www.sci.news/author/scinews" >News Staff</a></div> <div class="post-content"> <p>The end-Triassic extinction along with the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous events are the most severe mass extinctions in the past 270 million years. The...<a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/end-triassic-mass-extinction-mechanisms-13383.html'></a></p></div> </div> <div class="cb"></div> </div> <div class="bottom-archive"> <div class="bottom-recentpost-image-0"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/lomankus-edgecombei-13381.html" rel="bookmark"> <img width="195" height="110" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/10/image_13381f-Lomankus-edgecombei-195x110.jpg" class="attachment-contentsmall size-contentsmall wp-post-image" alt="Life reconstruction of Lomankus edgecombei. 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Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2023/05/image_11892-Uranian-Oceans-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2023/05/image_11892-Uranian-Oceans-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/space/uranian-moons-subsurface-oceans-13456.html' title='NASA to Search for Subsurface Oceans within Uranian Moons'>NASA to Search for Subsurface Oceans within Uranian Moons</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 26, 2024 | Planetary Science</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ninumbeehan-dookoodukah-13455.html" title="Triassic Amphibian Had Unique Adaptations for Seasonal Estivation"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13455-Ninumbeehan-dookoodukah-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Life reconstruction of Ninumbeehan dookoodukah in a palaeoenvironment reconstruction depicting its life and burrowing across seasons: (left) Ninumbeehan dookoodukah is resting on the edge of a river with a low water table as the wet season ends; (center) a small community of Ninumbeehan dookoodukah are in their estivation burrows at the apex of the arid season; (right) the onset of the humid season brings rain, triggering a mass emergence of Ninumbeehan dookoodukah from their estivation burrows. Some individuals expire before the incoming rains, leaving them to be preserved as fossils. Image credit: Gabriel N. Ugueto." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13455-Ninumbeehan-dookoodukah-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13455-Ninumbeehan-dookoodukah-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ninumbeehan-dookoodukah-13455.html' title='Triassic Amphibian Had Unique Adaptations for Seasonal Estivation'>Triassic Amphibian Had Unique Adaptations for Seasonal Estivation</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 26, 2024 | Paleontology</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/astronomy/456p-panstarrs-main-belt-comet-13454.html" title="Recently-Discovered Active Asteroid is in Fact Main-Belt Comet, Astronomers Say"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13454-456P-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Images of 456P/PANSTARRS taken with the Magellan-Baade telescope in Chile on October 3, 2024, and the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona on October 26, 2024, where the head, or nucleus, of the comet is at the center of each image, and the tail extends to the right. Image credit: Scott S. Sheppard / Carnegie Institution for Science / Audrey Thirouin, Lowell Observatory / Henry H. Hsieh, Planetary Science Institute." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13454-456P-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13454-456P-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/astronomy/456p-panstarrs-main-belt-comet-13454.html' title='Recently-Discovered Active Asteroid is in Fact Main-Belt Comet, Astronomers Say'>Recently-Discovered Active Asteroid is in Fact Main-Belt Comet, Astronomers Say</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 26, 2024 | Astronomy</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/nipponopterus-mifunensis-13453.html" title="New Pterosaur Species Discovered in Japan"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13453f-Nipponopterus-mifunensis-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Life restoration of a group of giant azhdarchids, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, foraging on a Cretaceous fern prairie. Image credit: Mark Witton / Darren Naish." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13453f-Nipponopterus-mifunensis-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13453f-Nipponopterus-mifunensis-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/nipponopterus-mifunensis-13453.html' title='New Pterosaur Species Discovered in Japan'>New Pterosaur Species Discovered in Japan</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 25, 2024 | Paleontology</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/astronomy/webb-image-sombrero-galaxy-13452.html" title="Webb Captures New Image of Sombrero Galaxy"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13452f-Messier-104-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="This Webb image shows the Sombrero galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13452f-Messier-104-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13452f-Messier-104-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/astronomy/webb-image-sombrero-galaxy-13452.html' title='Webb Captures New Image of Sombrero Galaxy'>Webb Captures New Image of Sombrero Galaxy</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 25, 2024 | Astronomy</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/genetics/faroe-islands-colonization-13451.html" title="Viking Expansion into North Atlantic Was More Complex than Previously Thought"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2021/10/image_10195f-Vikings-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Kuitems et al. provide evidence that the Norse were active on the North American continent in the year 1021 CE. Image credit: Oscar C.R." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2021/10/image_10195f-Vikings-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2021/10/image_10195f-Vikings-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/genetics/faroe-islands-colonization-13451.html' title='Viking Expansion into North Atlantic Was More Complex than Previously Thought'>Viking Expansion into North Atlantic Was More Complex than Previously Thought</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 25, 2024 | Archaeology</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/othersciences/nanotechnologies/nanopasta-13450.html" title="World’s Thinnest Spaghetti Created: Nanopasta"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13450-Nanopasta-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Britton et al. used a scanning electron microscope, scanning the mat with a focused beam of electrons and creating an image based on the pattern of electrons that are deflected or knocked-off; each individual strand is too narrow to be clearly captured by any form of visible light camera or microscope. Image credit: Beatrice Britton / Adam Clancy." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13450-Nanopasta-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13450-Nanopasta-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/othersciences/nanotechnologies/nanopasta-13450.html' title='World’s Thinnest Spaghetti Created: Nanopasta'>World’s Thinnest Spaghetti Created: Nanopasta</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 25, 2024 | Materials Science</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/astronomy/hubble-flocculent-spiral-ngc-2090-13449.html" title="Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Flocculent Spiral: NGC 2090"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13449-NGC-2090-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="This Hubble image shows NGC 2090, a spiral galaxy some 40 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Columba. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). It is based on data obtained through six filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13449-NGC-2090-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13449-NGC-2090-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/astronomy/hubble-flocculent-spiral-ngc-2090-13449.html' title='Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Flocculent Spiral: NGC 2090'>Hubble Space Telescope Looks at Flocculent Spiral: NGC 2090</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 25, 2024 | Astronomy</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/terastiodontosaurus-marcelosanchezi-13448.html" title="World’s Largest Worm Lizard Lived 47 Million Years Ago"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13448f-Terastiodontosaurus-marcelosanchezi-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Life reconstruction of Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi ready to prey on a large snail of the family Bulimulidae. Image credit: Jaime Chirinos." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13448f-Terastiodontosaurus-marcelosanchezi-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13448f-Terastiodontosaurus-marcelosanchezi-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/terastiodontosaurus-marcelosanchezi-13448.html' title='World’s Largest Worm Lizard Lived 47 Million Years Ago'>World’s Largest Worm Lizard Lived 47 Million Years Ago</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 22, 2024 | Paleontology</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/othersciences/chemistry/carbon-dioxide-methane-conversion-13447.html" title="Researchers Find New Way to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Methane"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13447-Carbon-Dioxide-Methane-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Direct electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide capture species, i.e., carbamate and (bi)carbonate, can be promising for carbon dioxide capture and conversion from point-source. Image credit: Neves-Garcia et al., doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c09744." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13447-Carbon-Dioxide-Methane-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13447-Carbon-Dioxide-Methane-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/othersciences/chemistry/carbon-dioxide-methane-conversion-13447.html' title='Researchers Find New Way to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Methane'>Researchers Find New Way to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Methane</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 22, 2024 | Chemistry</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/astronomy/vlti-image-red-supergiant-large-magellanic-cloud-13446.html" title="VLTI Captures Detailed Image of Red Supergiant in Large Magellanic Cloud"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13446f-WOH-G64-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="This image, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, shows the red supergiant WOH G64. Image credit: ESO / Ohnaka et al., doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451820." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13446f-WOH-G64-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13446f-WOH-G64-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/astronomy/vlti-image-red-supergiant-large-magellanic-cloud-13446.html' title='VLTI Captures Detailed Image of Red Supergiant in Large Magellanic Cloud'>VLTI Captures Detailed Image of Red Supergiant in Large Magellanic Cloud</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 21, 2024 | Astronomy</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/archaeology/earliest-known-alphabetic-writing-13445.html" title="Archaeologists Discover Earliest-Known Alphabetic Writing"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13445_1-Umm-el-Marra-Alphabet-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="The 4,400-year-old clay object discovered at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra, Syria; the engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known alphabet. Image credit: Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13445_1-Umm-el-Marra-Alphabet-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13445_1-Umm-el-Marra-Alphabet-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/archaeology/earliest-known-alphabetic-writing-13445.html' title='Archaeologists Discover Earliest-Known Alphabetic Writing'>Archaeologists Discover Earliest-Known Alphabetic Writing</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 21, 2024 | Archaeology</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/astronomy/youngest-transiting-exoplanet-13444.html" title="Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Exoplanet"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13444-TIDYE-1b-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="An artistic interpretation of the IRAS 04125+2902 system. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt & K. Miller, Caltech & IPAC." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13444-TIDYE-1b-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13444-TIDYE-1b-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/astronomy/youngest-transiting-exoplanet-13444.html' title='Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Exoplanet'>Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Exoplanet</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 20, 2024 | Astronomy</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/biology/nectar-foraging-ethiopian-wolves-13443.html" title="Ethiopian Wolves Become First Large Carnivore Documented Feeding on Nectar"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13443f-Ethiopian-Wolf-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="An Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) licks nectar from the Ethiopian red hot poker flower (Kniphofia foliosa). Image credit: Adrien Lesaffre." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13443f-Ethiopian-Wolf-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13443f-Ethiopian-Wolf-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/biology/nectar-foraging-ethiopian-wolves-13443.html' title='Ethiopian Wolves Become First Large Carnivore Documented Feeding on Nectar'>Ethiopian Wolves Become First Large Carnivore Documented Feeding on Nectar</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 20, 2024 | Biology</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/astronomy/desi-theory-general-relativity-13442.html" title="New DESI Observations Line Up with What Theory of General Relativity Predicts"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2018/06/image_6061f-Electric-Dark-Matter-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2018/06/image_6061f-Electric-Dark-Matter-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2018/06/image_6061f-Electric-Dark-Matter-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/astronomy/desi-theory-general-relativity-13442.html' title='New DESI Observations Line Up with What Theory of General Relativity Predicts'>New DESI Observations Line Up with What Theory of General Relativity Predicts</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 20, 2024 | Astronomy</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/paleontology/uncus-dzaugisi-13441.html" title="Ediacaran Nematode-Like Worm Fossils Unearthed in Australia"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13441-Uncus-dzaugisi-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="Digital photographs and 3D laser scans of Uncus dzaugisi body fossils. Scale bars - 10 mm. Image credit: Hughes et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.030." loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13441-Uncus-dzaugisi-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13441-Uncus-dzaugisi-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" /></a></div> <div class="block-image-r"> <h2><a href='https://www.sci.news/paleontology/uncus-dzaugisi-13441.html' title='Ediacaran Nematode-Like Worm Fossils Unearthed in Australia'>Ediacaran Nematode-Like Worm Fossils Unearthed in Australia</a></h2><span class="block-meta">Nov 20, 2024 | Paleontology</span> </div> </div> <div class="block-item-small"> <div class="block-image"><a href="https://www.sci.news/space/moons-oriental-basin-geological-map-13440.html" title="Planetary Scientists Create Geological Map of Moon’s Oriental Basin"><img width="50" height="50" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/11/image_13440-Oriental-Basin-Map-50x50.jpg" class="attachment-sidebar-thumb size-sidebar-thumb wp-post-image" alt="1:3M mapping (originally mapped at 1:200,000) of a portion of the Orientale basin. 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