The most thoughtful piece on this that I have read so far
Juvenile Stephanorhinus hemitoechus observing a dragonfly.
Happy Birthday Mary Anning 🦑
A pioneer. Without formal education. From working class background. Becoming breadwinner at a young age. Reshaped how we see the world.
Now, globally recognised as the lady that started it all. Thank you, Mary, you're an inspiration.
Drivers and mechanisms of convergent forelimb reduction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Yutyrannus talked dumb and got the thumb.
It's that time again! #Spinosaurus www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
More support for ancient archosaurs possessing lips! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our ground sloth paper made it into a @pbseons.bsky.social video!!!!!
youtu.be/Cjrt7qlGhl8?...
Commencement speakers praising AI and getting booed is becoming a genre, and I’m here for it.
Abstract. Forelimb reduction has been observed in numerous and disparate non-avian theropod dinosaurs, resulting in the hypothesis that reduced forelimbs e
Recent work has suggested that the presence of extraoral soft tissues (‘lips’), in the form of labial scales in theropod dinosaurs, could be inferred based on: anteroposteriorly distributed foramina ....
Colossal says its "artificial egg" will help it bring back the moa, which had larger eggs than any living birds 🧪
But it's really just an artificial eggshell, and even clingfilm will work - sort of - as an artificial eggshell. Plus there's the yolk problem...
www.newscientist.com/article/2527...
Haolong
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida.
Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
Colossal Biosciences, the company that says it resurrected the dire wolf, now says it has developed artificial eggshells so it can replicate the huge eggs of the moa. Independent experts say this isn'...