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Liaoning Province in China is known for the substantial amount of dinosaur fossils that’ve turned up in the dirt there. Over the years everything from insects to fish to plants have been discovered in such detail that even skin textures hav
Spiders are a little creepy to most people, right? Well that other percent that didn’t think they were creepy? You can come join the rest of us now. You’re walking through the woods and notice an interesting looking spider in the middle of
Paul Clerkin, a shark ecology graduate student at California’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, has been spending the last couple of months on a deep-sea trawling vessel in the Indian Ocean to see if the ship’s nets might pull up anything
An entire new genus has been identified with the discovery of two barb-free freshwater stingrays fished out of a river deep in the Amazon near Iquitos, Peru. Heliotrygon gomesi and Heliotrygon rosai can grow up to 1/2 a meter long and have
A new all-female species of lizard (Leiolepis ngovantrii) that reproduces itself by cloning was discovered being served up in Vietnamese restaurants in the Mekong River delta. The first batch that was being saved for the scientists to revie
A team of scientists visited a lush wilderness once dubbed “The Lost World” and guess what they found? No, not a disappointing sequel starring Vince Vaughn for no reason… three species that might be totally new to science! The array of new