Religious artifacts.
For ritual purposes; the go-to for the purpose of mysterious objects.
Nokia phones will probably still be functional
Everything old is new again
Well shoot; the video won’t show up here, but you can click through to youtube
Well, sure, if you can see the screen despite its blinding minimum brightness.
That is hilarious, if a bit prescient as well.
It really fit well with your comment.
Misleading headline. The beast had a head and legs, they just didn’t fossilize. However:
The “exceptionally preserved” euarthropod was found with its muscles, sinews, tendons and guts all preserved in “unimaginable detail,” said Sarah Gabbott, a professor at the University of Leicester’s school of geology and lead author of the paper, said in the statement.
So very cool, even if the headline is click bait.
A small articulated leg, probably from Australopithecus/Paranthropus robustus.
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It was difficult knowing where this should go. Arguments abound. Can’t release them into the wild even if they didn’t present a threat. So why? To raise zoo attendance?
In theory bringing back an extinct species would help us learn about them. In this case, though, there’s the problem that they didn’t actually resurrect dire wolves, they introduced a few of their key traits into grey wolves. Like 15-20 genes, which would be much less than what we have from neandertals despite us not being neandertals.
Right now most of the headlines seem to be repeating Colossal Biosciences’s description of these as dire wolves without questioning, but here is one of the rare exceptions.
And just for the record, I have seen criticism of this company being entirely about hype rather than good science before too.
Yeah, Ars is pretty harsh on these claims as well.
While this is being portrayed as the return of the dire wolf, these animals are primarily a variant of gray wolves, as many of the genetic changes that create their large size and pale coat already exist in some gray wolf populations. They carry only a few changes that are specific to dire wolves. (This is very much like what the company announced with woolly mice.)
(The comment about the “wooly mice” was my first thought as well)