[ad_1] ANDY CHEUNG/AFP via Getty Images Team USA remains an unstoppable force in women’s basketball. The Americans capped off a dominant run at the 2022 FIBA World Cup with an 83-61 victory over China in the championship game Saturday. The win marks the fourth consecutive gold medal in this tournament for the US squad. A’Ja … Read more
[ad_1] An artist reconstruction of Wufengella bengtsoni. (Image credit: Illustration made by Roberts Nicholls, Paleocreations.com) (opens in new tab) A bristly armored “worm” that scuttled across ocean reefs 518 million years ago is the ancestor to three aquatic animal groups that today live very different lifestyles, and it offers new clues about the explosion of … Read more
[ad_1] OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Step on it, squash it, spray it, whatever you have to do to kill it. That’s what etymologists and farmers are asking you to do when it comes to eradicating the hugely invasive spotted lanternfly. The insect is notorious for sucking the life out of more than 70 different species. … Read more
[ad_1] Paleontologists unearthed fish teeth that are 14 million years older than any other teeth found from any species – and the discovery could rewrite our understanding of early evolution. Four studies published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature detailed research on a trove of fish fossils that were found in China in 2019 and … Read more
[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about a key period of evolution that’s been hard to flesh out because until now scientists haven’t … Read more
[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about a key period of evolution that’s been hard to flesh out because until now scientists haven’t … Read more
[ad_1] A Chinese pet-cloning company has announced the birth of the world’s first cloned Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos), which was carried to term by an unlikely surrogate mother – a beagle. The cloned female wolf pup, named Maya, and her beagle mother were unveiled to the world in a brief video at a press … Read more
[ad_1] A Beijing-based genetics company has successfully cloned an Arctic wolf, an act that could help preserve endangered species. Sinogene Biotechnology unveiled the wolf named Maya one hundred days after she was born on 10 June. And she was created through the same technique behind Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal, cloned in Scotland in … Read more
[ad_1] On Monday, the Beijing-based company Sinogene Biotechnology unveiled the female wolf clone, named Maya by scientists, marking 100 days since she was born on June 10. Maya, a grey-brown pup with a bushy tail, is in healthy condition, said the company. During a news conference, it showed videos of Maya playing and resting. “After … Read more
[ad_1] “The baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin, was this unique and beautiful creature — there was nothing quite like it,” said Samuel Turvey, a British zoologist and conservationist who spent more than two decades in China trying to track the animal down. “It was around for tens of millions of years and was in its … Read more