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Rice feeds more than half the world, but scientists say current farming is crossing Earth’s safe limits for climate, water, and nutrients, and that makes every bowl part of a bigger planetary balancing actRice cultivation, a global staple, is pushing Earth's natural systems beyond safe limits, particularly concerning climate change, water use...- For millions of years, this ancient fish was thought extinct since the age of the dinosaurs—until it was found alive in South Africa and changed science foreverA chance discovery in South Africa in 1938 unveiled a 'living fossil' – a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, since the age of dinos...
- This 415-million-year-old monster scorpion existed before trees, and it's the biggest everScientists have identified Praearcturus gigas, a one-meter-long scorpion from the Early Devonian period, as the largest scorpion ever disco...
- Scientists just found a "fake dinosaur" that walked on two legs like a dinosaur 212 million years agoA newly named 'witch croc,' Labrujasuchus expectatus, roamed the American Southwest 212 million years ago, predating similar dinosaur forms...
- Goodbye to the myth that Tanystropheus hunted on land: CT scans suggest a stranger life in the seaPaleontologists have long debated the Tanystropheus, a prehistoric creature with an unusually long neck. Recent CT scans of its skull revea...
- Solar farms could be disrupting bird and bat migration, new studies revealSolar farms, vital for clean energy, are inadvertently harming migrating birds and bats. Their reflective surfaces mimic lakes, luring wild...
- Rare 4.5-million-year-old freshwater fish fossils found in Dehradun’s Shivalik foothills, a region previously known only for land animalsPaleontologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Shivalik foothills near Dehradun — the first-ever aquatic life fossils in a reg...
- Inside the Discovery of a Rare “Living Fossil” From the Age of DinosaursA remarkable fossil discovery in Inner Mongolia reveals Weichangiops squamosus, an ancient crustacean. This find, over 100 million years ol...
- Scientists Just Found One of the Earliest Flying Reptiles in North AmericaA significant fossil find in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park reveals North America's oldest pterosaur. This 209-million-year-old f...
- DNA Fragments in Crude Oil Are Revealing a Hidden Archive of Earth’s Ancient LifeScientists have discovered ancient DNA fragments within crude oil, offering a new way to reconstruct Earth's biological history. This groun...
- Hidden for millions of years, scientists identify a new dinosaur species deep in the SaharaPaleontologists have discovered a new species of Spinosaurus, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in the remote Sahara Desert of Niger. Unlike other spi...
- Washing-up liquid can damage aquatic life, warns study on surfactants: Here’s why its usage should be ceasedIn the UK, people use millions of washing-up liquid bottles on a yearly basis. These plastic items, along with the harmful ingredients in i...
- Australia: Scientists discover lizard-like ancient amphibian species which occupied country 247 million years agoWith fewer than 10 fossils of this lizard-like species being globally recognized, experts suggest that the revelation could revolutionize o...
- Fossilised remains of aquatic predators are to be auctioned off at Sotheby's in JulyThe mounted skeletons that will be auctioned this month are a pteranodon, a huge bird-like animal that lived about 85 million years ago, an...
- Rare leopard frog found beyond its known range in SouthwestA US Forest Service volunteer recently photographed a Chiricahua leopard frog in an earthen stock tank near the town of Camp Verde in centr...
- Consumed as a delicacy, the Chinese giant salamander is critically endangeredIt’s a “living fossil”, for being a part of the family Cryptobranchidae.
- India's watershed moment: A snapshot of the country's first multi-modal river portThe National Waterways Act, which identified 111 inland national waterways, is expected to give a boost to this mode of transport.
- Oldest evidence of life on Earth found in Australia"Stromatolites are laminated structures of micro- organisms which have created layers of minerals using elements dissolved in the water in ...
- Metal pollution behind world's largest extinction events: StudyHeavy metal pollution might have contributed to some of the world's largest extinction events, according to a study of 415-million-year old...
- The world's oldest flowering plant may be 130-million-year-oldScientists have identified a 125 mn- to 130 mn-year-old freshwater plant, a contemporary of dinosaurs, as one of earliest flowering plants ...
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