Articles for author: Sameen David

Sameen David

NEWS
Antarctic krill sustainability label questioned

Conservation Groups Challenge Antarctic Krill Fishery’s Sustainability Recertification

Antarctica – A draft report from the Marine Stewardship Council recommending the recertification of the world’s largest Antarctic krill fishery has prompted formal objections from prominent conservation organizations. Spotlight on a Keystone Fishery Spotlight on a Keystone Fishery (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Norway-based Aker QRILL Company dominates the Antarctic krill harvest, accounting for about 60 percent ...

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Dinosaur Science & TheoriesPrehistoric Theories
10 Mind-Bending Theories About Why Some Dinosaurs Developed Feathers

10 Mind-Bending Theories About Why Some Dinosaurs Developed Feathers

Picture this: a massive, terrifying predator charging across a Cretaceous landscape, feathers rippling across its body like a bizarre, prehistoric fashion statement. It sounds almost absurd, right? Yet the idea that feathers predated flight by millions of years is one of the most jaw-dropping revelations in all of modern paleontology. Feathers predate birds, having first ...

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Prehistoric HumansPrehistoric Land Mammals
Unearthing Evidence: How Early Humans Interacted with Megafauna in North America

Unearthing Evidence: How Early Humans Interacted with Megafauna in North America

Picture a world where towering mammoths, massive ground sloths, terrifying saber-toothed cats, and enormous short-faced bears roam across a vast, untamed continent. You’re not watching a sci-fi film. This was North America, not millions, but just tens of thousands of years ago. The landscape would have felt simultaneously breathtaking and deadly. The question of exactly ...

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Dino Guides & DestinationsFossils & Fieldwork
7 Hidden Gems: US Spots Where Ancient Tribal History Intersects with Paleontology

7 Hidden Gems: US Spots Where Ancient Tribal History Intersects with Paleontology

There is a version of American history most people have never been told. Long before university-trained geologists arrived with their tools and notebooks, Indigenous peoples across this continent had already been living alongside bones the size of boulders, shells pressed into cliffsides, and forests turned to stone. They interpreted these discoveries, incorporated them into ceremony, ...

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Dinosaur Science & TheoriesFossils & Fieldwork
Ancient Footprints in Texas Reveal Complex Social Structures Among Herbivores

Ancient Footprints in Texas Reveal Complex Social Structures Among Herbivores

When you think about footprints, you probably picture the shallow impressions left in beach sand, gone with the next wave. Now imagine those same impressions surviving not for hours, but for over 110 million years, locked deep inside limestone rock beneath the Texas soil. That’s precisely what researchers and volunteers have been uncovering across Central ...