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A student and a professor from CUNY’s Graduate Center and Brooklyn College have pruned a branch off the primate tree. New research reveals that picrodontids, small extinct mammals, are not related to primates. This discovery, made by examining a picrodontid skull with advanced CT scans, overturns
<p>A newly published paper in <strong>Royal Society’s <em><a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0335">Biology Letters</a></em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>reveals that picrodontids —an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs—are not primates as previously believed.</p>
Pope Francis is coming to Philadelphia, and bar owners aren’t sure whether to prepare for the rapture or purgatory. But one thing is certain: They’ll be serving good beer—no matter what they have to do to get it. One publican is turning the third-floor storage space above the most central of his six taverns into
The Cooper River in South Carolina is not for the faint-hearted scuba diver. Prehistoric treasures stud the riverbeds below alligators and other wild creatures in this ecologically rich area where the river meets ocean water and the tannins from decaying vegetation turn the water black. But it is a favorite
They scurried in the shadows of dinosaurs for millions of years until a killer space rock created a new world of evolutionary opportunity