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Humans' close relatives, chimps and bonobos, were kissing cousins
Mankind’s closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, are more related than previously thought.The two species of social ape may look alike, but couldn’t be more different when it comes to temperament.While chimps are known to violently defend territories and war with other troops, peace-loving bonobos tend to opt for a 'make love not war' approach to life, settling disputes with sex.Scroll down for video Genetic analysis has revealed that mankind’s closest living relatives, bonobos and ..>> view originalThe world's first fossilized dinosaur brain may have been found
The first known example of fossilized brain tissue from a dinosaur was identified using a scanning electron microscope to peer inside a rock. Scientists say it resembles the brains of modern-day crocodiles and birds. (Reuters) A bit of lumpy brown rock no bigger than an orange could be the world's first fossilized dinosaur brain. The 133-million-year-old specimen came from the skull of an Iguanodon, a genus of large, iconic herbivores that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods...>> view originalAncient interior decorators: Did early humans line caves with lion pelts?
Some 16,000 years ago a big cat died. Today, its toes may provide insight into its species' extinction.The cave lion, Panthera spelaea, once roamed from Europe to northern North America. Scientists think the animal was much like its modern African counterpart and hunted large animals like deer and bison. But about 12,000 ago or so, cave lions vanished from the landscape. Scientists have suggested that changes in climate drove P. spelaea to extinction, but a study published Wednesday in the jour..>> view originalA depressing new photo shows the smoking crater left by a European spacecraft on Mars
Jan Woerner the ESA's director general, as the Schiaparelli lander was supposed to be landing on Mars. Reuters One-half of Europe's ambitious mission to Mars not only crashed into red dirt, but exploded upon impact and left a crater as wide as a car. That's the depressing conclusion of the European Space Agency (ESA), which lost contact with its Schiaparelli lander on October 19 during a planned 6-minute descent to Mars. A new Martian satellite photo (below) shows..>> view originalNo More Data From Pluto
Most of the scientific investigations of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took place over the course of a single day, when it zipped within 8,000 miles of the dwarf planet in July of last year.Getting all that information back to Earth where scientists could study it took 15 months.The last bits of data — an infrared scan of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, that tells something about the composition of the two — arrived on Earth on Tuesday at 5:48 a.m. Eastern.“Well, you know, in our ..>> view originalHumans killed nearly two-thirds of the world's wildlife over...
By the end of the decade, global wildlife populations could be just one-third of what they were 50 years ago because of humans, scientists warned in a World Wildlife Fund report released Thursday. According to the Living Planet Report 2016, populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles declined 58 percent between 1970 and 2012, the most recent year for which data is available. The report tracks more than 14,000 populations of more than 3,700 species. "Wildlife is disappearing ..>> view originalNations Agree To Establish World's Largest Marine Reserve In Antarctica
Enlarge this image Boats sit on the beach at Bahia Almirantazgo in Antarctica. An agreement was reached on Friday to create the world's largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption toggle caption Natacha Pisarenko/AP Boats sit on the beach at Bahia Almirantazgo ..>> view originalDead Beached Whale Found to Have Skull Fractures
A blue whale that washed ashore in Northern Californian had suffered from multiple skull fractures. The San Francisco Chronicle reports ( http://bit.ly/2eiK5sy ) that a team of scientists with the Marine Mammal Center, California Academy of Sciences, Noyo Center, and University of California, Davis, said Thursday that the 65-foot male whale suffered blunt force trauma before washing ashore. They have not yet determined the cause of death. The Marine Mammal Center received a report Wednesday..>> view originalLiving life on high: swift birds eat, sleep, and mate without touching Earth
A 10-hour flight can leave humans longing for solid ground beneath their feet, but for some birds that might not be the case – even after months, not hours, on the wing. The common swift, Apus apus, spends 10 months of the year aloft, according to research published Thursday in the journal Current Biology. This new study makes the bird a record-setter. Previous research had pointed to the Alpine swift, Tachymarptis melba, as being able to fly non-stop for some 200 days, 100 days less than the c..>> view original
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