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Fossil discovered over 100 years ago in Fernie, B.C., identified as new species

Paleontologist Jordan Mallon helped identify a new animal species 109 years after a man discovered a fossil fishing near Fernie, B.C. The fossil had been sitting in the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa for decades before Mallon started to study it.

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Meet 'Walt,' the 80-million-year-old mosasaur named after the Texas teen who dug it up on the Canadian Prairie

A Texas teen returned from a summer vacation to the Canadian Prairies with a story he says his pals back home probably wouldn't believe - were it not for the fact that the 80-million year old aquatic reptile fossil he unearthed has been named "Walt" after him.

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Chimney swifts' housing crisis creates hurdle for affordable housing providers

The chimney swift is a bird threatened with extinction that nests in urban chimneys. Thanks to laws that protect it, some affordable housing providers have to come up with creative bird housing solutions before going ahead with human housing projects.

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Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications, by M. Eric Benbow, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Aaron M. Tarone, from CRC Press. (Aug 2).

Soliciting abstracts to a new collection in JoVE called "New Techniques in Cellular Social Evolution". (Stefania Kapsetaki). (Jul 24).

Multimodal Data Fusion for Bioinformatics Artificial Intelligence, by Umesh Kumar Lilhore (Editor), Abhishek Kumar (Editor), Narayan Vyas (Editor), Sarita Simaiya (Editor), Vishal Dutt (Editor), from Wiley. (Jul 19).

Life History Evolution: Traits, Interactions, and Applications, by Michal Segoli and Eric Wajnberg, from Wiley. (Jul 12).

Evolution Seen from the Phase Diagram of Life, by Shigeki Mitaku, Ryusuke Sawada, from Springer. (Jul 5).

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Aug 5 12:00The activity and expression of adenylosuccinate lyase were reduced during modern human evolution, affecting brain and behavior - Xiang-Chun Ju, et al. (PNAS)
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