Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – If you thought Australia was home to only one ancient “giant wombat,” think again. While the Diprotodon—the extinct megafauna species that is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have long debated why non-bird dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, became extinct—whereas mammals and other species such as turtles and
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New research by Holtz, Snively and co-authors tested the hypothesis that large ligaments strengthened the soles of tyrannosaurs’ feet near the toes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles of the dinosaur era, originated in the Late Triassic (227 million years ago) and became extinct at the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Octopuses are considered alien-like creatures that are highly intelligent, curious, remember things and recognize people. Octopuses have complex “camera” eyes, as seen
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Mating patterns could actually help explain many supposedly biological relationships between traits, researchers say Many estimates of how strongly traits and diseases share
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Gills are best known for helping most fish species breathe underwater. But less well known is the fact gills regulate the salt
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Artificial intelligence has revealed that prehistoric footprints thought to be made by a vicious dinosaur predator were in fact from a timid
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Humans have the highest prenatal growth rate of all extant primates, but how this exceptional rate came about has been a mystery up
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge as a
Jan Bartek – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have puzzled over the origin of Namibia’s fairy circles for nearly half a century. It boiled down to two main theories: either
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A newly discovered type of transferrable DNA structure with a sci-fi name appears to play a role in balancing atmospheric methane. In
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A process of desiccation and deflation explains why dinosaur “mummies” aren’t as exceptional as we might expect, according to a study published
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new study of a tiny Triassic fossil reptile first discovered over 100 years ago in the northeast of Scotland has revealed
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Thanks to an international research collaboration involving the University of Granada (UGR), a hitherto undescribed species of insect has been discovered: Calliarcys
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Purdue University chemists have uncovered a mechanism for peptide-forming reactions to occur in water—something that has puzzled scientists for decades. “This is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have discovered several very rare species of microorganisms, some of which have never been seen before and others which have avoided
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Chinese paleologists have discovered two fossil repositories in southwestern Chongqing municipality and Guizhou province whose strata date back to the Silurian Period
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An extinct reptile’s oddly shaped chompers, fingers, and ear bones may tell us quite a bit about the resilience of life on
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Every modern mammal, from a platypus to a blue whale, is descended from a common ancestor that lived about 180 million years
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have conducted a new analysis of the origins of ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs – the group which includes iconic species such as Triceratops
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Geologists have found the fossil of the earliest known animal predator. The 560-million-year-old specimen is the first of its kind, but it
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of 40 researchers analyzed the genomes—the complete set of DNA—of all living and recently extinct penguin species and combined
