A team of paleontologists from the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales have published a paper in Nature announcing the discovery of Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a new, vegetarian, Jurassic theropod.
Researchers examined “levels of racism,” quantified by the proportion of Google searches containing the “n-word,” for whether it was a predictor of Black mortality and determined that it definitely might be.
On this date in 1871, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City opened to the public.
If you’ve been to see one of the SGU Skeptical Extravaganzas you will have seen the bit called “Facts that Will Fuck You Up.” That was definitely the reaction I had to the calculations made by students from the University of Leicester to estimate how much of the Amazon Rainforest would be required to print out the entire non-explicit internet.
in 1985, there were 2 news stories in the UK which mentioned The Loch Ness Monster. In 2014, there were 853 UK news stories mentioning “Nessie”.
The interwebs are super excited about a new frog that looks like the Muppet Kermit the Frog. The resemblance is due to the large white eyes and dark irises protruding from the head and the distinct green color on the frog’s back.
It was only a matter of time before drones would be used to capture alleged “bigfoot” footage from a bird’s eye view.
“I feel like thousands of years ago . . . people did this and it worked. My skin is very soft, and I feel like I owe it to the blood.”
30 new species of flies were discovered in Los Angeles as part of a biodiversity project conducted by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles county.
Pilots are encouraged to report unexplained sightings and encounters to The National UFO Reporting Center?