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A rostral denticle of Ischyrhiza mia, a species belonging to an extinct group of sawfishes that lived in North American waters during the late Cretaceous period, around 100 to 65 million years ago, pictured in an undated photo. Teeth likely originated in an armored ray that swam the oceans 100 million years ago, according to new research, carried out by a scientific team at Penn State University in the U.S. (Jon Mills, SWNS/Zenger)

All Teeth Come From Single Ancient Sea Predator, According To New Study

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It backs the ‘outside in’ idea that states that scales migrated into the mouths of ancient vertebrates.�
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Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria have released a study showing humans are ingesting large amounts of nanoplastics in water that could be harmful to their health. (Medical University of Vienna/Zenger)

Junk Food And Tainted Water: People Ingest A Credit Card Worth Of Nanoplastics Weekly, Study Says

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Such substances are bad for people’s health over the long run, medical researchers in Austria say.
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Reconstruction of the extinct owl Miosurnia diurna perched in a tree with its last meal of a small rodent, overlooking extinct three-toed horses and rhinos with the rising Tibetan Plateau on the horizon. (IVPP, Zheng Qiuyang/Zenger)

Owls About A Snack? 6-Million-Year-Old Owl Fossil Still Had Lunch In Its Stomach

April 1, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

The estimated size of the bird’s eyeball suggests it was active during the day, unlike its modern nocturnal relatives.
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A woman smells a flower in the rose garden at the annual Chelsea flower show on May 25, 2010, in London, England. Researchers are trying to bring back smells from the days of old to uncover new insights about past societies. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Scent Back: Süskind’s Perfume Could Come To Life As German Scientists Recreate Smells From The Past

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The scientists believe that recreating these scents may provide new insights into social hierarchies and practices of the time.
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HALO, one of the three research aircraft being used in the HALO-(AC)3 campaign in March 2022, in front of Arena Arctica in Kiruna, Sweden. (Marlen Bruckner-University Leipzig/Zenger News)

VIDEO: Heating Up: Scientists Race To Find Cause Of Alarming Polar Heatwave

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Three research aircraft are being deployed to obtain data on air masses in the region to aid prediction models for the Arctic.
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In this handout provided by NASA, a close-up image of a region near Pluto's equator shows a range of mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it passed within 7,800 feet of the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. The probe was launched Jan. 19, 2006, aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (NASA/APL/SwRI via Getty Images)

Astronomers Discover ‘Geological Wonderland’ On Pluto

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Cryovolcanoes — or ice volcanoes — can tower up to 4.5 miles tall.
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People walk down the street in Branson, Missouri. Researchers have discovered that people's childhood experiences of navigating their environments, whether urban or rural, determine their sense of direction in later years. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Sense Of Direction Depends On Where You Grew Up

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Spatial navigation skills decline with age, starting in early adulthood, but deficits are also a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Selected titanosaurian eggs and egg-clutches collected from the Late Cretaceous Serra da Galga Formation (Bauru Group) at Ponto Alta nesting site, Uberaba Municipality, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. (Dr. Agustin G. Martinelli/Zenger)

Shell Of A Find: Scientists Find Massive Haul Of 80-Million-Year-Old Titanosaur Eggs

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Rarest of rare finds in an abandoned limestone mine in a rural area of Brazil said to highlight region’s historical importance.
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For the first 10 million years after dinosaurs died out, mammals prioritized boosting their body size to adapt to radical shifts in the makeup of Earth’s animal kingdom, according to new research. (Steve Chatterley/Zenger)

Mammals ‘Put Brawn Before Brains To Survive The Post-Dinosaur World’

March 31, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

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A cone snail searches for prey. Researchers from varied disciplines are collaborating to understand the way conotoxins — chemicals found in cone snail venom — work and how they can be utilized to reduce pain in humans. (Pengchao-BGI/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Venomous Sea Snail Could Be Key To More Effective Painkillers With Lower Risk Of Addiction

March 31, 2022 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

The properties of the toxins in the venom have already shown promise in medicine, researchers say.
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