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A newly notice pterosaur from Early Cretaceous deposits in China looks like a hybrid between a pelican and a mountain banshee from the movieAvatar . NamedIkrandraco incarnation , their skulls suggest that the flying reptiles eat up like some forward-looking seafowl , skimming the water for nutrient with the help of throat pouches . Theworkwas published inScientific Reportsthis week . work with 120 - million - year - old sediment from the Aptian Jiufotang Formation in northeastern China , an international squad led byXiaolin Wang from the Chinese Academy of SciencesandAlexander Kellner from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiroidentified an common , never - before - seen pterosaur from two sets of flatten out fogey ....

Scientists have foundthree more speciesof a fish that – despite what we are taught at school – are fully lovesome - full-blood . The species in question are large deep - sea Pisces make love as opah , and are find in many oceans around the major planet . A few year ago , the opah made headline when it was revealed to be thefirst full quick - full-blooded fish species ever discovered ....

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Mental Floss is partnering with FilmNation and iHeartPodcasts to bring in you the transcripts forGreatest Escapes , a podcast host by Arturo Castro about some of the wildest escape stories across chronicle . In this episode , Diane Guerrero ( Encanto , Doom Patrol ) joins Arturo as he tell the first heroic escape by one of the most infamous offence lords of the twenty-first century : El Chapo ....

We take for granted that many English password have counterparts that sound related , but are n’t . Even thoughknowandnosound the same , their meanings are so different we assume they have different etymological sources ( which the spelling differences also suggest ) . However , sometimes words we might not expect to have anything in rough-cut historically do in fact go back to the same source . They ’re called etymological doublet ; here are 15 of them ....

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Here is the first sequence of Dynamo , a crazy indie scifi web series that is one of the coolest ( and cockamamie ) things I ’ve interpret in a while . With optical effect that are dreamy and evocative , Dynamo is a gonzo peep into a post - revelatory futurity where it seems there is only one city left on Earth . A eldritch cast of character reference — including a wanted malefactor , a “ superintelligence agent , ” a mysterious bearded serviceman from space , a ninja who lives in the “ dustlands , ” and an adorkable mates who wish stargazing — are all living in this unearthly next Earth , their route crossing and diverging ....

In a touch trend , ABL Space System ’s RS1 rocket became the third projectile to succumb to a launch bankruptcy in less than a month . The botched liftoff came just 24 hours after Virgin Orbit ’s LauncherOne garden rocket carry a freight of nine satellitesexperienced an anomalythat prevent it from reaching orbit . In agrim tweetshortly after its scheduled launching from Pacific Spaceport Complex — Alaska , ABL bring out its RS1 experienced an anomaly preventing it from launching properly ....

Let ’s locomote back in time before Just Eat , five different supermarket chains within a 2 - mile spoke , or even agriculture . There , you ’ll find foraging , one of the most ancient practices there is . Though it ’s never truly perish away since then , foraging has ascertain something of a resurgence in recent years , and with it , a curiosity about how it check into the modern Clarence Shepard Day Jr....

Odds did n’t look great for Class , Patrick Ness ’ sinister new grownup show correct in the existence of Doctor Who , when its first time of year debuted to abysmal view bod — and then Ness himself jumped shipa few month ago . But now we officially be intimate that adventures of the gang of Coal Hill students will not be making a issue . The newsworthiness has been on the rampart for a while now , but was officially reassert by BBC Three controller Damian Kavanagh :...

The debut time of year for Amazon’sLord of the RingsprequelRings of Powertook quitea bit of a while to get goingbefore affair really set about coming together . That ’s good word for season 2 — whichfinally hits the waft this hebdomad — because it mean there ’s a lot it can hit the earth running with . But if you need a reminder of what ’s gone down in the Second Age so far before we hit that earth run for , we ’re here to help ....