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A newfound feathered dinosaur sported fuzz and weird rods on its shoulders
Science News   14 December 2020   Brazil  
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<p>The fossil of a chicken-sized, meat eater from Brazil that had a mane of fluffy filaments and a pair of stiff, ribbon-like streamers emerging from both shoulders is the first dinosaur with feathers ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere.<br />Named ...
Beware of rockfalls in warm weather
Science News   28 March 2016   USA   Yosemite, California  
ROLLING STONES A crack in a Yosemite National Park cliff grows and shrinks as temperatures rise and fall, new research shows. Cracked cliffs can cause colossal rockfalls in the park, such as this one from October 2010.
<p>As the weather warms, watch for falling rocks. While monitoring a cracked cliff in Yosemite National Park, researchers watched the fissure widen as temperatures rose. The risk of rockfalls could increase as climate change cranks the thermostat, one scientist ...