Rare fish gets a 'real' home at VIMS
For years, marine scientist Eric Hilton shared his workspace with a 120-pound dead fish floating in ethanol. This wasn't just any fish, but a rare specimen of coelacanth — pronounced SEEL-a-canth — a...
View ArticlePerot Dinosaur Grows Up
Paleontologists from Dallas' Perot Museum of Nature and Science uncover juvenile specimen in same North Slope Alaskan site where Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum was discovered Download image Download image...
View Article3D Brain Map: New 'BigBrain' Atlas Called Most Detailed Ever Created
The postmortem brain of a 65-year-old woman has been transformed into a new 3D map revealing the intricate architecture of the human noggin on a scale finer than a human hair. The map, known as...
View ArticleWhy there are different colors of eyes?
The amount of melanin in our irises determines the color of our eyes. There are two types of melanin: Eumelanin (blackish brown) and Pheomelanin (reddish yellow)....
View ArticleBumpy reptile skull rewrites the prehistoric record
There weren't many skin treatment solutions that we know of some 266-252 million years ago. But even if there had been, they wouldn't have been able to help Bunostegos akokanensis, a giant,...
View ArticleExtinct frog hasnt croaked yet
THE first amphibian to have been declared extinct by the worlds conservation watchdog has been named a living fossil after it was rediscovered alive and well in northern Israel, researchers reported...
View ArticleWild horse DNA sets record
Researchers have unravelled the genetic code of a wild horse that loped across the frozen Canadian Yukon about 700,000 years ago, making it the oldest creature to reveal its DNA to modern science....
View ArticleSmithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to display U.S. Army Corps...
(Source: Montana State University System) June 27, 2013 -- MSU News Service BOZEMAN --The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Museum...
View ArticleTyrannosaurus rex gets long-term lease at Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum
The arm was found first, by a day hiker in a rugged, remote section of a Montana wildlife refuge. The body had been frozen in time — and rock — for ages, stuck in a death pose for posterity in Hell...
View ArticleAncient origin of hepatitis B viruses revealed by DNA fossils in bird genomes
Artistic impression of hepatitis B viruses near human lymphocytes. Image copyright: Alexander Suh & somersault18:24. doi:10.1038/ncomms2798. As the old adage goes; "One man's trash is another man's...
View ArticleIguanodon was once thought to be a horned, four-legged dinosaur
Here is where speculation came in about the Iguanodon. The scientists only had a few remains of the creature. They made a reconstruction of the Iguanodon based on the remains found by Mrs. Mantell....
View ArticlePrehistoric fish found in Kimberley region, West Australia, had 'world's...
SCIENTISTS have discovered fossils of a scary, prehistoric shark-like fish with abs. A team of international scientists discovered fossils of the shark-like fish with abdominal muscles in the remote...
View ArticleT. rex roars into National Museum of Natural History
“We wish to extend our sincere appreciation to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Museum of the Rockies, the state of Montana and the Wankel family for all they have done to make this possible. With...
View ArticleOn the hoof: Ancient DNA reveals story of horse that lived 700,000 years ago
Two pieces of a 700,000-year-old horse metapodial bone, just before being extracted for ancient DNA, are shown. Photo: AP/Ludovic Orlando/Nature Scientists say they have unravelled the DNA of a horse...
View ArticleFL yellow jacket nest 'from the dinosaur ages'
Jonathan Simkins is an expert in flying insects. He has a degree in entomology from the University of Florida, and has been working in the industry for more than 20 years. Simkins is the owner of...
View ArticleAncient horse bone yields oldest DNA sequence
A fragment of a fossilised bone thought to be more than 700,000 years old has yielded the genome of an ancient relative of modern-day horses. This predates all previous ancient DNA sequences by more...
View ArticleWaking the dead
Living for the past … Professor Mike Archer with a thylacine skull. Photo: James Brickwood Professor Mike Archer's small office at the University of New South Wales is stuffy - the windows and blinds...
View ArticleSmithsonian to acquire nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil for new...
WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is acquiring its first full Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for eventual display in a new dinosaur hall planned for the museum on the...
View ArticleBugs eating up stuffed animals at Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Marilyn Bellows, interpretor and conservation assistant at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum,works to debug one of their displays. (CBC) The Royal Saskatchewan Museum is battling an insect that likes to...
View ArticleNew crypt-keeping beetle species discovered on Pacific island
Scientists have discovered a new species of beetle that buries bird and mammal carcasses in a crypt for its young to eat, according to a . Sporting sickle-like jaws and front wings that reach like a...
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