Cows and chickens will never go extinct because they are food, and some useless critters like Aedes aegypti have managed to tough it all despite being just disease vectors. For everything else, it can be a crap shoot. Nature is out to kill us all.read...
read moreA new analysis of the long-necked dinosaur family tree says Apatosaurus excelsus is oh so wrong and Brontosaurus is oh so right.Just like a hundred plus years ago. read...
read moreI love the Daily Mail in the UK. Next to The Journal of Sexual (insert any word here), they are most likely to feel unfettered by any standards of science or journalism. Recently they discussed – ‘discuss’ meaning produce funny pictures – how 30-ton dinosaurs with 12 foot long penises had sex. How do they [...]
read moreA giant crococile versus a giant snake in a Colombian coal mine? It sounds even more awesome than "Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus", except the real life version does not have Debbie Gibson.An ancient crocodile relative, a dyrosaurid now named Acherontisuchus guajiraensis, likely gave the world's largest snake a tussle or two. In Palaeontology, University of Florida researchers describe the new...
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