A new species of snake has been named after Indiana Jones legend, Harrison Ford. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the pale yellowish-brown snake (with scattered black splotches) was discovered by researchers in the Andes mountains in Peru and has been named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi. It’s unclear whether the species is particularly skittish around other snakes. “These… Continue reading Harrison Ford Gets New Species of Snake Named After Him
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New Beaked Dinosaur Species Found in Utah | Science
Iani smithi Jorge Gonzalez Even after two centuries of research, paleontologists still know relatively little about certain expanses of time in the Age of Dinosaurs. The middle part of the Cretaceous, from about 83 million to 113 million years ago, is among them. Paleontologists have long wondered how the famous faunas of the end of… Continue reading New Beaked Dinosaur Species Found in Utah | Science
Humans Take Out More Wild Species Than Any Other Predator on Earth | Science
Humans hunt, kill or capture a massive number of species. Surprisingly, most of this is for non-food reasons. dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Some people may be picky eaters, but… Continue reading Humans Take Out More Wild Species Than Any Other Predator on Earth | Science
The Lonely Battle to Save Species on a Tiny Speck in the Pacific | Science
By Joe Spring Associate Editor, Science In May of 2021, Brittany Clemans and Lindsey Bull, two sea turtle biologists in their 20s, were walking around Tern Island, an incredibly remote block of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when they came across a Hawaiian green sea turtle. She had crawled onto the island… Continue reading The Lonely Battle to Save Species on a Tiny Speck in the Pacific | Science