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Botanists Vote to Remove Racial Slur From Hundreds of Plant Species Names
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 hours agoAfter six days of heated discussions, 556 researchers at the International Botanical Congress in Madrid conducted a secret ballot vote on whether to eliminate a “c” in more than 200 scientific ...
Rare fossils reveal secrets of mammal evolution
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 3 hours agoThe...involved researchers from the American Museum of Natural History, University of Chicago...Facility, and Queen Mary University of London< ...
How Will Climate Change Hurt Lesser Flamingos?
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day ago“It was a very beautiful sight,” says Byrne, a PhD candidate in zoology at the Natural History Museum and King’s College London. In the ...
Instead of using film, this artist prints photos onto living plants
CNN.com· 2 days agoSpanish artist Almudena Romero knew from a young age that she loved plants: “I must have been about...
So many factors make these Canadian cities the best in the world in 2024 | Canada
Daily Hive· 5 days agoLast year, a global ranking of the best cities highlighted five Canadian cities for the year 2024....
Giant millipede lost to science rediscovered in Madagascar’s jungle | CNN
CNN.com· 5 days agoA giant dark-brown millipede, not documented for 126 years, has been recorded in Makira Natural...
This $45 Million Stegosaurus Is Now the Most Expensive Fossil Ever Sold at Auction
Mentalfloss· 6 days agoOdd Stegosaurus theories have been plentiful over the years—from the idea it harbored a second brain in a mysterious cavity over its rear end, to the belief its back plates were horizontal rather ...
Near-complete Stegosaurus fossil sells for record $44 million at auction
AOL· 7 days agoThe dinosaur remains were estimated to fetch up to $6 million, but the sale far exceeded those expectations. It set a world record price for a fossil at auction after a bidding war that lasted ...
Dinosaur skeleton breaks auction record with $44.6 mn sale in New York
Digital Journal· 7 days agoThe largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found, nicknamed Apex, sold for a record breaking $44.6...
Stegosaurus Sells for $44.6 Million, Trampling Fossil Price Records
Barron s Online· 7 days agoMake no bones about it—a nearly complete stegosaurus skeleton sold on Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York for a record US$44.6 million, the most ever paid for a fossil at auction, according to ...