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- How 'parrot dinosaur' switched from four feet to two as it grew
- Avengers-style Helicarrier is still pie in the sky
- A new bizarrely shaped spoon worm, Arhynchite hayaoi, from Japan
| How 'parrot dinosaur' switched from four feet to two as it grew Posted: 28 Jun 2013 06:21 AM PDT Tracking the growth of dinosaurs and how they changed as they grew is difficult. Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn have shown how one of the best-known dinosaurs switched from four feet to two as it grew.  |
| Avengers-style Helicarrier is still pie in the sky Posted: 28 Jun 2013 06:19 AM PDT Physics students calculate the four-propeller powered giant aircraft seen in the Avengers would not be possible with modern technology.  |
| A new bizarrely shaped spoon worm, Arhynchite hayaoi, from Japan Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:53 AM PDT A new species of the peculiarly shaped spoon worms has been recently discovered in Japan. These animals, formally referred to as echiurans, derive their name from their elongated spoon-like projection (the proboscis), issuing from a barrel-like roundish body (the trunk). The new species, once abundant on sandy flats in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, somehow remained undescribed because of previous misidentification with a known species.  |
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