Paleontology Today

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They’ll create a subsidiary hawking their de-extincted wolves. Their subsidiary’s domain will be called Dug-up-Pupper.com

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And now BBC has the correct story too. Think the truth will catch up after so many places echoed the press release without consideration?

But I guess the company has probably gotten the hype it needs to impress investors either way. I frickin’ hate the post-truth world corporations have built.

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Platypuses are not marsupials, they lay eggs like you literally just said. :unamused:

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Nominative determinism in action, yet again!

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According to the Google Translator, Grandoni means big guys… So Dino Grandoni…

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Apart from the herbivore bit, that could be a labrador…

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… During a recent expedition, researchers drilled more than 487 metres into the West Antarctic ice cap and discovered a sub-glacial river flowing beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, earth.com released.

The river, as high as a 30-storey building and as wide as a city block, is a mixture of freshwater and seawater, slowly making its way towards the ocean.

“We found water at the end of the borehole and, with the help of our camera, we even discovered a shoal of lobster-like creatures 400 kilometres from the ocean”, said expedition leader Huw Horgan. …

Once again, our friends at Farmingdale Observer have curiously tagged a story as Home Improvement:


Other curious applications of this tag may be found here and here.

Methinks they need a Science category/tag.

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And I’m an idiot. These are living critters, not fossils. I’ll move this to “interesting,” if y’all think I should.

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