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Discoscapa Apicula: Oldest Record Of Primitive Bee With Pollen Dates Back 100 Million Years

A primitive bee from 100 million years ago has two things in common with bees of today; pollen and a parasite that caused its demise, much like varroa mites cause periodic colony collapse…

Food Is Essential And Fertilizer Is Expensive; A New RNA Sequencing Study May Improve Both

When a giant chunk of the work force is told to stay home, and even paid to do it, the results can be felt for years. The US is facing supply chain issues due to conflicting stances like politicians…

A New Species Of Edrioasteroid From The Kinzers Formation

This beautiful specimen is Protoaster Haefneri, a new species of edrioasteroid, an extinct lower Cambrian genus of echinoderm from the Kinzers Formation of York County, Pennsylvania. The…

Biochronological Macrofossils

Paper clams or 'flat clams' were widespread in the Triassic. We call these bivalves 'flat clams' because of their very thin shell width and narrow valve convexity.