Video: ‘living Fossil’ Eel Swam At Dawn Of Dinosaur Age

                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1113211448001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In an undersea cavern off the coast of Palau, biologists have discovered an eel unlike any other. Called Protoanguilla palau, its last common ancestor with any other living creature swam 200 million years ago. Not only is there nothing like it alive, there’s nothing [...]

Video: ‘Living Fossil’ Eel Swam at Dawn of Dinosaur Age

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How to: Name a dinosaur

David Orr knows how to come up with a good name, as his blog, Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs, demonstrates. Now, in a guest blog at Scientific American, he turns his attention to the naming of dinosaurs. What inspires all those italicized monikers? How do you properly convert non-Latin words to (at least, vaguely) Latin-ish ones? Orr has the answers. In this excerpt, he talks about the name of a new theropod—a suborder of dinos that includes the T. rex and its bipedal, tiny-armed cousins ...

How to: Name a dinosaur

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