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"And sauropods were so big that the food would have spent that long going through them anyway," Wedel said. "They could stop chewing entirely, with no loss of digestive efficiency." What's a long neck good for? Furthermore, sauropods and other dinosaurs probably could breathe like birds,...
The largest single cave chamber in North America, the Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns, was once dubbed "The Grand Canyon with a roof" by Will Rogers. Visitors can take an elevator or walk the winding mile-plus Natural Entrance Trail down to the massive limestone enclosure, where multiple trails...
The special place is near Wittman Dam in the town of Dickinson. It's just above the location where Broome County officials once considered building a massive trash-burning plant in the 1980s. Parts of the proposed site were in the city and in the town of Dickinson. It had been used by...
(an owl has to move its entire head, rather than its eyes, to look in different directions). The myth of the "wise owl" dates back to ancient Greece, where an owl was the mascot of Athena, the goddess of wisdom — but the truth is that owls aren't any smarter than other birds,...
the skin and hair had to be separated from the skull to allow them to shrink at different rates. Then, the eyelids were sewn shut and the mouth was stuck closed with a peg. And for the actual shrinking, the heads were put in a big pot and boiled for a very specific amount of time...
Panamanian lockdown came with its share of drama — though to be fair, no country knew what they were doing. Some men “misbehaved” at one point, breaking their curfew rules, and had their Saturday shopping day taken away. Restrictions were often placed and then removed, only to be placed...
But first, some ancient history. Avocados were a popular snack food long before humans hit the scene. In the Cenozoic era, prehistoric megafauna like mammoths and giant ground sloths wouldgobble the fruit wholeand then travel long distances, before pooping out the seed and thus dispersing the ...
028 Why books are here to stay Small Thing Big Idea a TED series 03:33 027 The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet Emma Schachner 10:13 026 The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals Leon Marchal 11:00 025 The search for dark matter and what we've found so far...