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Entangled skeletons of Psittacosaurus and Repenomamus preserved in fossil – SWNS An extraordinary fossil of a dinosaur being attacked and eaten by a mammal has been unearthed by paleontologists. It features the entangled skeletons of a beaked and horned herbivore and the smaller, meat-eating Repenomamus at a prehistoric animal graveyard in China’s Liaoning Province dubbed …
(Rumble license) A woman had just arrived at the Judge Wickersham House, an historic 1898 home in Juneau, Alaska to get a tour, when she happened upon a high-flying crisis. One of the employees at the site greeted her by immediately asking, “What do you know about hummingbirds?” She explained that one of the tiny …
Jo Rymill with Arthur – SWNS A “miracle” cat missing for five weeks was found still alive underneath a neighbor’s floorboards. The Russian blue’s overjoyed owners believe he narrowly survived by eating spiders and bugs and licking condensation from pipes. Arthur lost half his bodyweight while trapped in the English home, and he was only …
credit – Derrick Biglin released While on a fishing trip with some students, hoping to be able to teach them about the habits of sharks, a scientist in Florida landed 13 feet of jagged-faced hope. Up from the depths of Cedar Key came a mature female sawfish, a bizarre relative of the ray with a …
Some years ago, a Connecticut dry cleaners realized their store was smack dab in the middle of a turtle migration route, and now every year from May through September, job responsibilities shift from cleaning and pressing clothes to cleaning and pressing clothes and picking up turtles. Pameacha Pond, a 19-acre body of water in Middletown, …
credit Amanda Williams In the Australian state of New South Wales, a surfer cut his surf trip short to save a struggling magpie that had somehow managed to dump itself in the ocean waves several dozen yards from shore. Watching it all from an observation deck was Amanda Williams, the only reason the still-anonymous surfer’s …
(SWNS) This flying reptile, found in a German rock quarry, wasn’t fully grown when it was embedded in the sediment, but it nevertheless sported a two-meter wingspan and a neatly-parted pompadour reminiscent of Elvis Presley, paleontologists suggest. In life, it would have waded the shore of shallow seas but might have ventured into estuaries or …
By Denis Riek via The Global Ocean Surface Ecosystem Alliance, CC license In the northern Pacific Ocean, a powerful ocean ‘gyre’ pulls together several ocean currents into a single region—the site of the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). However, longer before there was plastic waste in these waters, and in spite of it, the …
(SWNS) A German Shepherd has taken a clutch of abandoned ducklings under his wing and become their ‘very protective’ surrogate dad. The dog named Ben recently had a BFF relationship with an adult duck that flew away unexpectedly, so perhaps he sensed that the newly-hatched ducklings were related. Ben and the fledgling brood bonded immediately …
File photo by Elisa Peterson, CC license Palm Beach County has already shattered the record for the number of turtle nests recorded during a single nesting season on Juno Beach, with three months of counting still to come. By Sunday, the 9.5-mile Juno Beach in the northern part of the county had seen 21,872 mostly-loggerhead …