Sleeping creature with ‘dagger-like spines’ found in Vietnam. It’s a new species
As darkness settled over a forest of southern Vietnam, a “long”-limbed creature with “dagger-like spines” climbed into a shrub and fell asleep. But the night wouldn’t be restful. Passing scientists ...
Bamboo-dwelling creature — with ‘large’ multicolored eyes — discovered as new species
In a bamboo forest of southwestern China, a spotted creature perched on a plant. Its “large,” multicolored eyes scanned the surrounding landscape, but it wasn’t the only one looking. Passing ...
A bill in state legislature would make a nocturnal creature Indiana's official state mammal
Rep. Victoria Garcia Wilburn wrote a bill inspired by a fifth grade class that would designate Indiana's official state ...
The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...
Male flies sharpened their eyesight to call the females' bluff
With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study suggests ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in Antarctica
The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. 66 million years ...