Watch the video to see an animated, three-dimensional recreation of the puzzling mid-Cretaceous crab that forces a rethink of what a crab is.(Video credit: Daniel Ocampo R., Vencejo Films, & Javier Luque, Yale University [images]; animation and 3D reconstruction by Alex Duque) The crab family just got a bunch of new cousins, including […]
The search for habitable, alien worlds needs to make room for a second “Goldilocks,” according to a Yale University researcher. For decades, it has been thought that the key factor in determining whether a planet can support life was its distance from its sun. In our solar system, for instance, Venus is too close to […]
You don’t name a sea creature after an ancient Greek warship unless it’s built like a predator. That’s certainly true of the recently discovered Pentecopterus, a giant sea scorpion with the sleek features of a penteconter, one of the first Greek galley ships. A Yale University research team says Pentecopteruslived 467 million years ago and […]