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Abu Dhabi Fossil Dunes
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Abu Dhabi Fossil Dunes: A beautiful frozen landscape created by climate change
<strong>Fossil dunes:</strong> These unusual forms rising from the desert are one of the highlights of a trip to Abu Dhabi's Al Wathba region.
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Gallery A photo tour of Al Wathba Fossil Dunes in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Fossil Dunes
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This illustration compares the headbutting of an extinct giraffoid called Discokeryx xiezhi (foreground) with the neck-fighting style of modern giraffes (background).
WANG Yu and GUO Xiaocong
Extinct headbutting relative reveals how the giraffe grew a long neck
Tooth size comparison between extinct Early Pliocene Otodus megalodon tooth and a modern great white shark.
MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology
Great whites may have doomed the biggest shark that ever lived, fossil teeth reveal
Scientists unearthed the largest pterosaur found in South America.
Courtesy Leonardo Ortiz David
Flying ‘Dragon of Death’ is the largest pterosaur discovered in South America
a tiny robotic crab invention that is the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot.
Northwestern University
Tiny crab robots are so small they can walk on top of a US penny
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J. Wiemann
A long-standing and fundamental question about dinosaurs may finally have an answer
Dreadnoughtus fight for dominance in the Apple TV+ series 'Prehistoric Planet.'
Apple TV+
‘Prehistoric Planet’ packs a BBC nature series with plenty of dino might
Ghost nannofossils (left) with virtual casts (right). The fossils are approximately 5 µm in length, 15 times narrower than the width of a human hair. Credit: S.M. Slater, P. Bown et al / Science journal.
S.M. Slater, P. Bown et al/Science Journal/London Natural History Museum
Scientists discover ‘ghost’ fossils beneath a microscope
This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, with an added black background to fit wider screens. It's the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single "Earth-sized" virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the event horizon, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape.   Although we cannot see the event horizon itself, because it cannot emit light, glowing gas orbiting around the black hole reveals a telltale signature: a dark central region (called a shadow) surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole, which is four million times more massive than our Sun. The image of the Sgr A* black hole is an average of the different images the EHT Collaboration has extracted from its 2017 observations.  In addition to other facilities, the EHT network of radio observatories that made this image possible includes the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, co-owned and co-operated by ESO is a partner on behalf of its member states in Europe.
European Southern Observatory/EHT Collaboration
New image reveals the ‘gentle giant’ at the heart of the Milky Way
The Deinonychus antirrhopus specimen, excavated in Montana in 2013, dates back to the early Cretaceous period, 115 to 108 million years ago.
Christie's Images Ltd. 2022
Fossils of a dinosaur that inspired ‘Jurassic Park’ sold for over $12 million
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BBC Studios
Fragment of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs may have been found
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Céline Le Bohec; CNRS; CSM
Emperor penguins have an unlikely robot ally as they face threats at the edge of the world
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200 million year old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea only occasionally into shallower water.
Jeannette Rüegg/Heinz Furrer/University of Zurich
‘Fish lizard’ fossils found in Swiss Alps belonged to some of the largest creatures that ever lived