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scienceblog.com > s-136-long-clawed-shrew-skulls-from-hokkaido-showed-the-classic-winter-flattening-of-the-braincase-and-across-the-same-series-the-snout-enlarged-in-winter-and-shrank-again-in-spring

136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...

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Strips of adhesive tape pressed against Britain's tallest stone row yielded 236 dated zircon grains, and their ages match a gritstone tor 18 kilometres west rather than the closer outcrop that the monument's official heritage listing still names as its source

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (867+ words) A mineral fingerprint taken without cutting the stones points the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge to Brimham Rocks, and a compatible fingerprint turns up in a battle cross probably carved in the fifteenth century. By The Long View · Edited by Chris…...

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scienceblog.com > t-unknown-human-lineage-africa-dna-modern-populations

An unknown human lineage interbred with our ancestors in Africa more than 50,000 years ago — and although scientists still don't know who these humans were, traces of their DNA survive in every modern population studied.

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1147+ words) A new genomic method detected roughly 0.49% to 1.1% ancestry from an unidentified human population across five sampled groups. The signal points to mixing in Africa before the main out-of-Africa expansion, but it has not been matched to a fossil species. By…...

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scienceblog.com > t-dimetrodon-synapsid-humans-not-dinosaur

Dimetrodon — the sail-backed predator routinely mistaken for a dinosaur — first appeared roughly 60 million years before the earliest dinosaurs and was actually more closely related to humans than to T. rex.

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1080+ words) Dimetrodon lived in the Permian, before dinosaurs, and belonged to Synapsida, the same major evolutionary branch that later produced mammals. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit The plastic dinosaur bin has been lying to…...

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Crocodiles still live wild in the middle of the Sahara desert, trapped there since the desert itself used to be green

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (583+ words) A species abandoned by climate change six thousand years ago still clings to existence in Earth's harshest landscape, waiting for a rescue that may never come. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit In a…...