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Movie-going could 'become extinct' warns director
2020-10-08 05:08:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins gives a stark warning about the film industry as more movies are delayed.
Scientists discover large extinct otter
2017-01-22 23:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Curator and Head of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dr. Denise Su, Curator & Head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have published a paper with colleagues in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology on the discovery of one of the largest otter species ever found. This discovery was made in the Yunnan Province, Southwestern China by an international team of scientis…
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Giant extinct salmon fought with spike teeth during upriver spawning events
2016-10-28 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: This is an illustration by Jacob Biewer Credit: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SALT LAKE CITY, UT (Oct. 2016) - The ancient coastal waters of the Pacific, roughly 11 to 5 million years ago, were home to a bizarre and fascinating species of giant sal…
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Bizarre new species of extinct reptile shows dinosaurs copied body, skull shapes
2016-10-03 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least a hundred million years on our planet in animals before those dinosaurs themselves actually appeared. In a study in the Sept. 22 issue of Current Biology, a multi-institutional team of paleontologists including Virginia Tech College of Science researcher…
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Ancient DNA traces extinct Caribbean 'Island Murderer' back to the dawn of mammals
2016-09-13 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] From skeletal remains found among ancient owl pellets, a team of scientists has recovered the first ancient DNA of the extinct West Indian mammal Nesophontes, meaning “island murder.” They traced its evolutionary history back to the dawn of mammals 70 million years ago. The authors, including Selina Brace, Jessica Thomas, Ian Barnes et al., published their findings in the advanced online edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution. …
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