by Shawn Radcliffe | Mar 6, 2013 | Science
A well-preserved 33,000-year-old dog skull recovered from a cave in the mountains of southern Siberia is more closely related to modern dogs than to wolves. This finding, from an international team led by a Russian researcher, backs up a study from last year that...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Mar 5, 2013 | Science
Best known for traveling across inhospitable deserts, camels may have gotten their start in a radically different environment. Fossil fragments of an extinct camel’s leg, discovered in Canada’s High Arctic by a research team led by the Canadian Museum of Nature,...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Aug 9, 2012 | Health, Science
We are trapped in our lives by clutter. Shackled to our jobs, relationships, and houses by closets filled with stuff that we barely remember—mementos from better times in our lives, power cords belonging to gadgets several generations out of date, shoes and shirts...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 24, 2012 | Science
In the cold depths of the ocean, nature is slow to give up its secrets. In April, scientists discovered the first adult white orca in the wild. Following on the heels—or tail—of this find, a group of other researchers have identified a new sensory organ in a group of...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 15, 2012 | Science
Nature is more than “red in tooth and claw.” Survival of the fittest is commonly seen as organisms battling with each other for scarce resources, but it may also involve multiple species working together for the benefit of all. Darwin’s followers have perpetuated the...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 10, 2012 | Science
Here’s something the builders of Jurassic Park didn’t take into consideration: dinosaur farts. The tremendous emissions of creatures like Apatosaurus—think raunchy volcanoes on legs—may have warmed the Earth at a time when it was already extremely balmy. Scientists...
