A 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish with preserved stomach contents is a newly discovered species
In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...
3-foot-long river creature with ‘large’ teeth found in Vietnam. It’s a new species
In a river of southern Vietnam, a 3-foot-long creature with “large” teeth maneuvered through the brackish water — or tried to, at least. But something closed around the wrinkly animal and pulled it ...
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What we lose when animals go extinct
If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...