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A newly discovered dinosaur, given the name Iani smithi after Janus, the Roman God of Change, was an early ornithopod. The species was the group that ultimately gave us the commonly known duckbill dinosaurs. You’ve probably seen some of those dinosaurs like the Parasaurolophus or Edmontosaurus. Even if you don’t know the names off the […]

For years now, we knew that photosynthesis was the process by which green plants and other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Essentially, this oxidation process is taking electrons from water and can reduce or even give electrons to carbon dioxide molecules. Of course, all of this requires the use […]

While there are quite a lot of cat breeds on the planet, the average house cat has been in our lives as humans for as long as most of us can remember. Even if you never owned a cat yourself, you might have had a friend that did. It’s such a common pet that no […]

There are a ton of parasites in the world today, but most of the time we never come across them in the developed world. Little things like purifying our water supply and cooking our food have allowed us to avoid many. Yet animals such as wolves do not have this luxury most of the time. […]

Evolution might be a real thing, but it’s quite complicated and we’re finding out more about it every single day. One recent study just added more complication to it all, when it found a new branch of fungal evolution we never knew about previously. This all came as a result of 600 seemingly disparate fungi […]

It is rare that science declares a species to be long-dead only for it to turn up alive somewhere. It is very common for a species to be endangered, and sometimes specialists claim that a particular species is nearly or assumed to be extinct. Yet to be so sure that an extinct title is put […]

While we’re not the type of people to go out licking animals, it seems that the National Park Service is pretty adamant that we shouldn’t do this. In particular, we should not lick the Sonoran Desert Toad (or Colorado River Toad). Sure, to some this might feel like the NPS is just sucking the fun […]

Each year, I travel and camp or cottage in “Northern” Ontario. This year was no different, and I thought I’d share some of the creatures I managed to photograph while on my adventure. I think these photos serve as a reminder that we need not look to aliens, ghosts, and monsters to find exquisitely creepy […]