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A fossil hunt in the badlands of Patagonia has revealed a Sauropod skeleton, critical to the story of biology’s grandest giants

<p>The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience and cowardice</p><p>This is how it works. An industry puts tremendous effort into resisting change: lobbying governments, mobilising the media, pouring money into <a href="https://diversedaily.com/think-tank-domination-how-corporations-create-or-fu

Don’t think of all Mesozoic mammals as meek and tiny—alongside the terrible lizards, some were giants in their own right

Paul Smith has never been afraid of color. In fact, he’s surrounded by it. “Welcome to my room!” the cheery 80-year-old says over a Zoom call as he moves his laptop like a toy airplane around his office headquarters in central London. Smith’s signature is whimsy: For him, fashion is about play. The suits he […]

Late on in “Kefi,” one of its central protagonists — the youngest of three sisters — justifies a spontaneous hook-up with a random stranger by claiming that “the flow” of their chance encounter “was really cinematic.” The same, perhaps, can be said for Kisin Saito’s brazenly confident debut feature as a whole — a genre-fluid […]

Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sweeping analysis of fossils and ancient climates suggests that their preference for warm environments placed them in tropical refuges that remained habitable even after the catastrophic impact.

Likely the strangest entry at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, the surreal “Kefi,” the debut feature by cinematographer Saito Kisin, mixes multiple short stories and multiple styles to make sense of the feelings around a complicated relationship with his late father. It doesn’t get there through the signifiers one might anticipate: there are al

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have set the stage for ants to conquer the planet, with a surprising boost from “jumping genes” hidden in their DNA. Scientists discovered that bursts of activity from these mobile genetic elements coincided with the rise of major ant groups and may have helped sharpen their extraordinary ability to communicate thro

Sweeney's assessment of the games industry in the 2000s hits close to home today, but I still hold out hope that the future can be better.