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New Dinosaur With Eight-Inch Claws Could Have Been More Dangerous to Humans Than T. Rex

A fossil overlooked at London's Natural History Museum since 1924 has revealed a previously unknown predator that roamed Britain around 120 million years ago.

International Business Times UK · Oct 15

How Humpback Whale Song Dialects Shift Over Decades and What Cultural Transmission Tells Us

The Song That Crosses an OceanIn 1998, marine biologist Michael Noad and his colleagues at the University of Queensland documented something that had no clean explanation at the time. Two humpback whales off the east coast of Australia were singing a song-type that belonged to the west coast population, a…

Times Life · Aug 18

Study from 2009–10 found organic free-range eggs could come with an unexpected climate cost and may not be the greenest choice after all

Buying organic free-range eggs feels like the ultimate green choice. But new research from the University of Oxford shows an unexpected climate cost. Going 100% organic free-range actually surges greenhouse gas emissions by 60% and doubles land use. Free-range hens eat more feed and suffer higher mortality. Better animal welfare…

The Economic Times · Jul 30

Whale stuns scientists with record journey spanning three oceans to mate

Such long journeys may be an evolving adaptation in response to climatic and environmental changes, researchers say

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2024

Wheel may have been invented by copper miners in eastern Europe 6,000 years ago

New theory says wheel was first used by copper miners in Carpathian mountains around 3900BC

The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2024