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More than 380 million years ago, a sleek, air-breathing predatory fish patrolled the rivers of central Australia. Today, the sediments of those rivers are outcrops of red sandstone in the remote outback.Our new paper, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,describes the fossils of this fish, which we have named Harajicadectes zhumini.Known from at least 17 fossil specimens, Harajicadectes is the first reasonably complete bony fish found from Devonian rocks in central Australia. It has also proven to be a…

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Preview | Tagged: scooby dooIn Scooby-Doo Where Are You? #126, the gang faces off against a literary heartthrob who's taken "bite me" a bit too literally.Published Sat, 03 Feb 2024 21:26:07 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Daphne and Velma tackle a literal vamp from new novel in Scooby-Doo Where Are You? #126. Inside the tongue-in-cheek Twilight trope, girls' night goes fang-centric Tuesday release. DC Comics blends mystery with supernaturally-charged romance for…

From politics to films and even war, the year 2023 has demonstrated that not everything one sees or hears on the internet may be real.With the ever-evolving Artificial Intelligence technology rapidly becoming a part of people's lives, a sharp rise in deepfakes has raised concerns in the country about its potential to influence electoral politics, especially during the Lok Sabha polls slated to be held next year. Deepfakes are manipulated videos or other digital representations that use artificial intelligence to create…

Toplitz Productions has announced that the next in the Dynasty franchise of games will be Vampire Dynasty, developed by Mehuman Games. It’s not expected to hit Early Access until late 2024, but they’ve provided a cinematic and gameplay trailer for an early look. The Dynasty series of games is a growing series of simulator titles that include Farmer’s Dynasty, Medieval Dynasty, and Sengoku Dynasty. There’s usually a different developer on each one, which has yielded some mixed results. I dug through the press release and…

Few creatures in the fossil record have perplexed paleontologists more than the Tully Monster. The curious sea creature—which sported a toothy, trunklike snout and eyes that were splayed out on a rigid rod—has been impossible to classify. Researchers have lumped it in with a variety of organisms such as segmented worms, swimming slugs and primitive eel-like critters since it was first described in 1966. In recent years paleontologists have even connected the Tully Monster to jawless fish such as lampreys, which have a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRenfield makeup artist Christien Tinsley has revealed the extreme lengths Nicolas Cage went to, to play Dracula.In the new movie by director Chris McKay, Cage plays the vampire, while Nicholas Hoult portrays the title character, Dracula’s long-suffering assistant and henchman.In an interview with Variety, Tinsley revealed they used 3D printing to craft Dracula’s famous fangs.“This was…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNicolas Cage has denied that he went full method on the set of Renfield, in which he plays Dracula.In the new movie, Cage, 59, plays the vampire, while Nicholas Hoult, 33, portrays the title character, Dracula’s long-suffering assistant and henchman.Renfield director Chris McKay recently claimed in an interview that “whatever scene we did he would still be 100 per cent living in that…

via 20th Century Fox Parodies and spoofs used to be genuinely funny – as well as a consistently successful stream of hit movies – until the infamous duo of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer arrived on the scene. The pair delivered several of the worst mainstream comedies you’re ever likely to see, but Vampires Suck mercifully kick-started the beginning of the end for a craze that had overstayed its welcome. Between them, Friedberg and Seltzer used their background as writers on the smash hit Scary Movie to…

The stakes are high It’s that spooky, scary time of year, and Arkane is ringing in the season with a new look at its own scary project. Bethesda and Arkane dropped a new trailer for upcoming co-op shooter Redfall today, spotlighting the bloodsuckers terrorizing the town. Today’s official “Into the Night” trailer takes us into the heart of Redfall, which is having a bit of a vampire problem. We see firsthand how the invasion has torn apart the city, and see some in-first-person gameplay of dealing with one of the…

Image: Columbia Pictures It’s been one hundred years since the German silent classic Nosferatu was released and vampires of all varieties have entranced fans of horror cinema ever since. Over the years they’ve taken on very different looks, but have only recently begun to recover from the Twilight Saga sparkly street cred hit. Reddit’s home of horror is currently entangled in discussion over the greatest vampire films of all time, and there are some absolute classics in the conversation. There are a few…