Pterosaurs are often imagined soaring over the heads of dinosaurs, but a new analysis of their fossilized footprints shows that some of these flying reptiles were just as comfortable walking on the ground. The post Study: Several Groups of Pterosaurs Became More Terrestrial 160 Million Years Ago appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News. Pterosaurs…
BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. — The Mystic Aquarium Animal Rescue Team has never been busier. BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. — The Mystic Aquarium Animal Rescue Team has never been busier. NBC News Science
The H.H.S. review may set the stage for additional restrictions on gender-affirming care. Critics described it as an ideological statement. The H.H.S. review may set the stage for additional restrictions on gender-affirming care. Critics described it as an ideological statement. Transgender, Youth, United States Politics and Government, Therapy and Rehabilitation, Hormones, Surgery and Surgeons, Research, Health…
Tourist Nash Core admits he felt some fear when he and his 11-year-old son waded into the ocean off the Australian coast to help rescue a 10-foot great white shark stranded in shallow water. Three local men managed to return the distressed shark from a sand bank into deeper water after an almost hour-long rescue…
The leading candidates in Saturday’s national election have starkly different policies on energy and global warming. The leading candidates in Saturday’s national election have starkly different policies on energy and global warming. Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions NYT > Science
In parts of California’s Central Valley, so much groundwater has been pumped out of the ground to deal with the region’s persistent drought that the land is starting to sink in. Underground aquifers — layers of sand, gravel, clay, and water — are vital resources that communities can turn to when surface water is scarce….
Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family members in this community who died, often due to disease or other health complications. The Gardens, as it’s commonly referred to, stands…
Canada’s newly elected prime minister wants to turn the country into an “energy superpower,” while promising to respect Indigenous rights, prompting both cautious optimism and skepticism from Indigenous leaders and advocates in Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney won Canada’s election this week in what many observers are calling an embrace of Canadian nationalism and rebuke…
Deep in the bowels of .gov web addresses sits a site that houses the climate adaptation plans for more than two dozen federal agencies. They outline everything from the Smithsonian protecting the National Museum of American History from flooding to the Department of Defense “incorporat[ing] climate considerations into wargames.” The fact that these documents remain…
Despite its widespread perception, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is involved in much more than farming. The federal agency, established in 1862, is made up of 29 subagencies and offices and just last year was staffed by nearly 100,000 employees. It has an annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars. Altogether it administers funding,…
