Lincoln Park Zoo gorilla, Bana, dies at 29
Zoo officials were tipped off something was wrong after Bana stopped eating as much as she regularly did and appeared lethargic.
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Zoo officials were tipped off something was wrong after Bana stopped eating as much as she regularly did and appeared lethargic.
Millions of twinkling lights and festive displays are great way to celebrate the season.
Objectives: This research examines whether the distribution of trabecular bone in the proximal capitates of extant hominids, as well as several fossil hominin taxa, is associated with the oblique path of the midcarpal joint known as the dart-thrower's motion (DTM). Materials and Methods: We analyzed proximal capitates from extant (Pongo n = 12; Gorilla n = 11; Pan n = 10; fossil and recent Homo sapiens n = 29) and extinct (Australopithecus sediba n = 2; Homo naledi n = 1; Homo floresiensis n = 2; Neandertals n = 3) hominids using a new canonical holistic morphometric analysis, which quant...
Little do most people know that, by far, the greatest example of life extinguishing life (so far) is the Great Oxygenation Catastrophe...
Bushman has been dead for a long time, but he was carefully preserved and encased in glass at the Field Museum’s East Entrance.