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Intermale-competitions of giraffoid, foreground: Discokeryx xiezhi, background: Giraffa camelopardalis. Credit: WANG Yu and GUO XiaocongGiraffes are quite distinctive due to their extremely long necks. In fact, their necks can be as long as 7.9 feet (2.4 m). Even though there have been various hypotheses as to the evolutionary origin of these longs necks, they haven’t had sufficient proof, leaving it an unsolved mystery.Charles Darwin suggested the “competing browsers hypothesis,” which basically says that the elongated…

It seems like Fossil and Skagen are planning to announce new smartwatches. The Fossil Gen 7 and Skagen Falster Gen 7 seem to be on the way. Just to be clear. Skagen is a part of the Fossil Group.That being said, four new smartwatches from the Fossil Group have been certified. All of them appeared over at Bluetooth SIG, which signalizes new devices are coming.Fossil Gen 7 & Skagen Falster 7 smartwatches seem to be comingThe DW14F1, DW14S1, DW15F1, and DW15S1 all appeared. All these model numbers are referred to as…

U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks as House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) listen during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol May 11, 2022 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong | Getty ImagesRepublicans this week introduced a road map describing how they would mitigate rising gasoline prices and address climate change if the party wins control of the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.The plan comes from the energy, climate and conservation…

In light of the brutal tug-of-war over resources that is natural selection, it's been taken for granted that the giraffe's iconic neck evolved to reach leaves other plant-eaters can't possibly access.  What seemed obvious to Charles Darwin has since attracted a great deal of scrutiny, with some biologists proposing those extended vertebrae aren't for browsing, but rather male weapons of war in the battle for love.Not all researchers are convinced, leaving plenty of room for debate over the benefit of the giraffe's…

Comparison of primary Aitken mode particle plumes from power stations over northern Germany according to the German weather forecast model COSMO Art based on measured emissions (A) and on Y2000 (AeroCom, https://aerocom.met.no) based emissions (B) for southeasterly winds. The model was run for November conditions to suppress secondary gas to particle conversion (adapted from14). Credit: Scientific Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11500-5…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Driven by technological, societal and political change, renewable energy technologies are progressively replacing fossil fuels. Under an expectation that…

In 2018, a child living in the village of Long Gua Pa in northeastern Laos approached a team of archaeologists, eager to show them a cave full of bones. The team began to chisel into the cave’s cementlike walls, exposing the remains of ancient rhinoceroses, tapirs, pigs, rodents—and a single, humanlike molar. Now, the researchers have identified the tooth as that of a Denisovan, mysterious cousins of Neanderthals and modern humans who likely died out about 30,000 years ago. The…

Of all the corporate climate hype floating around this spring, ExxonMobil’s secret project to cut down its pollution by mining Bitcoin has to rank up there as one of the strangest. Exxon launched a pilot project in 2021 to mine Bitcoin in North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields, according to reporting by CNBC in March. The US’s biggest oil and gas company is also thinking about doing the same in Alaska and parts of Nigeria, Argentina, Guyana, and Germany, Bloomberg reported. And it’s not alone. Other oil companies, including…

Scientists have found a “stunningly preserved” leg of a dinosaur, and they believe it is the first fossil linked to the catastrophic asteroid event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The remarkable discovery at the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota is found to have skin still attached to it. Scientists hope this limb could offer insights into what actually happened 66 million years ago when a giant asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs from this planet and led to the rise of…