“No amount of spin changes the fact that the oil and gas extraction is wreaking havoc on our communities and our climate.” A report published Tuesday by the nonprofit Earthworks details the difference between what major fossil fuel companies say and do in terms of voluntary and government-mandated efforts to reduce the potent greenhouse gas methane, concluding that “the […]
This fossil is a clue to the history of how dinosaurs dispersed between continents, showing some dinosaurs likely nested in the far north A small piece of fossil jawbone from Alaska represents a rare example of juvenile dromaeosaurid dinosaur remains from the Arctic, according to a study published July 8, 2020 in the open-access […]
[smartslider3 slider=6] The recent discovery of the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan suggests the duck-billed creatures once stomped across the Bering Land Bridge. The dinosaur found in Japan is very similar to Edmontosaurus, fossils of which have been found throughout Alaska. The creatures may have been more adaptable and widespread than […]
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 […]