A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

If you come across one of these goopy colonies, don't fear! While they may be gross, they are native to the Great Lakes and ...

Now, a new discovery offers a clearer picture of their external appearance: Scientists re-examined an old plesiosaur fossil, which had been sitting in a museum’s storage for decades, and ...

A large, clear yellowish, glob caught in Thunder Bay along Lake Huron was a bryozoan colony, native to the habitat.

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Although scientists have uncovered a number of transitional fossils of bird-like animals, precisely what was the first bird is a complicated question to answer. Birds and non-avian dinosaurs are ...

A cosmic fossil record The team tackled the challenging task of determining the spin of black holes using the SDSS’s Reverberation Mapping project. This project has been making extremely precise ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

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