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Sameen David

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PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are falling in North Atlantic whales after phaseout

North Atlantic Ocean – Pilot Whales Signal Victory Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ with 60% Decline

Long-finned pilot whales in the North Atlantic now harbor markedly lower levels of certain persistent industrial chemicals, demonstrating the delayed but real effects of production phaseouts initiated two decades ago. Decline Uncovered Through Innovative Analysis Decline Uncovered Through Innovative Analysis (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Researchers at Harvard University revealed a significant drop in PFAS concentrations by ...

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Study refutes claim that Indonesia’s legal turtle trade supports livelihoods

Indonesia’s Turtle Harvest: Scant Livelihood Support for Harvesters, Study Reveals

Indonesia – Wildlife researchers have challenged long-held assumptions about the economic role of the country’s legal freshwater turtle trade, finding it sustains only a tiny fraction of collectors amid declining populations. Ancient Survivors Under Siege Ancient Survivors Under Siege (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Turtles boast an evolutionary legacy spanning over 200 million years, enduring cataclysmic events ...

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Dinosaur Science & TheoriesFossils & Fieldwork

Paleo-Art Is Being Revolutionized by New Understandings of Dinosaur Biology

There’s something almost humbling about realizing that the dinosaurs you grew up with – the big, scaly, gray-green monsters stomping around in movies and on museum posters – were probably never quite real. Not in any accurate scientific sense. The images that shaped a generation’s understanding of these extraordinary animals were built mostly on guesswork, ...

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Dinosaur Science & TheoriesPrehistoric Theories
Recent Discoveries Point to Dinosaurs' Sophisticated Sensory Perception

Recent Discoveries Point to Dinosaurs’ Sophisticated Sensory Perception

When most people picture a dinosaur, they imagine something enormous, lumbering, and about as sharp as a boulder. You know the image: squinting little eyes, no expression, mindlessly stomping through prehistoric ferns. Honestly, it’s an image that science has been quietly dismantling for decades now, and the pace of those revelations has picked up dramatically ...

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Dinosaur Science & TheoriesPrehistoric Theories
The Dominant Herbivores of the Cretaceous Period Were More Adaptable Than Imagined

The Dominant Herbivores of the Cretaceous Period Were More Adaptable Than Imagined

When you picture a plant-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous, you probably imagine a slow, lumbering giant trudging through a prehistoric jungle, blindly munching on anything green within reach. Honest moment here – that image is satisfying, but it is also wildly incomplete. The herbivores of the Cretaceous were far more sophisticated, resourceful, and ecologically nimble ...

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Dinosaur Science & TheoriesFossils & Fieldwork
New Evidence Confirms Dinosaurs Utilized Advanced Communication Methods

New Evidence Confirms Dinosaurs Utilized Advanced Communication Methods

For most of human history, we pictured dinosaurs as little more than instinct-driven monsters, crashing through prehistoric forests, roaring into the void, completely oblivious to the world around them. Then science started catching up. And honestly, what researchers have uncovered over the past several decades is nothing short of jaw-dropping. These weren’t just big, lumbering ...

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Dinosaur Science & TheoriesFossils & Fieldwork
Ancient DNA Reveals Dinosaurs Possessed Surprising Social Structures

Ancient DNA Reveals Dinosaurs Possessed Surprising Social Structures

You probably picture them as solitary, thundering giants crashing through primeval forests with no regard for anything beyond their next meal. That image, honestly, belongs more to Hollywood than to science. The reality of dinosaur social life, as researchers have been steadily uncovering, is far stranger, more nuanced, and more impressive than anyone dared imagine. ...