This week’s releases include an amusing new Laika picture; a new take on Big Red; a German trilogy questioning its post-war recovery; and a raw portrayal of a profound singer.
Black holes come in three sizes, small, medium and large. Small and large black holes have representative candidates to support black hole theory. A medium-sized candidate has been identified in a spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth.
Paleontologists digging in British Columbia's Kootenay National Park in 2012 came across a most amazing "motherlode" of fossil specimens. The 44 fossils are of an ancient fish named Metaspriggina that swam in an ancient sea 500 million years ago.
Evolution is a funny thing, especially if it's part of your imagination that doesn't work, or if you're simply not good with imagery. Case in point: Whales evolved from a deer-like animal about the size of a raccoon according to a new report.
All birds, even ones that perch in trees, may have descended from waterfowl. That is the conclusion of a study of well preserved 110-million-year-old fossils of the earliest known modern bird. The specimens were found in northwestern China.
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