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Last weekend, kids ages 8-12 attended Riverside Rangers at the Riverside Nature Center for a workshop on “Wild Life!” The ...
Prior to this instance, the “tongue-nibbling” had only been observed a handful of times in captivity. First seen in captive ...
Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other's tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think ...
This is where convergent evolution helps. If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there ...
While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are more likely to survive the ravages of time, pressure, and erosion. In fact ...
Scott Speedman just scored himself a new TV role — but should Grey's Anatomy fans worry about Nick's future on the show? It was announced on Wednesday, June 25, that Speedman landed the lead ...
Scientists caught a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” in a trap at a Peru national park and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Pedro Peloso, shared by Robert Voss In the ...
The transition from sprawling (reptile-like) to more upright (parasagittal) posture and locomotion was a transformative event in mammalian evolution ...
(BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas) -- Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, ...
Discover the pangolin, the world's most trafficked mammal. Learn unique facts, why their scales are used, if nocturnal, and urgent conservation efforts.
Anatomy of the pancreas The pancreas is an elongated, tapered organ located across the back of the belly, behind the stomach. The right side of the organ—called the head—is the widest part of the ...