MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ― A team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico, the country’s National Institute for Anthropology and History said.Apart from being unusually well preserved, the 5-meter tail was the first ever found in Mexico, said Francisco Aguilar, INAH’s director in the border state of Coahuila.The team, made up of archaeologists and students from INAH and the National Autonomous University of Mexic

Within 50 years, climate change will probably wipe out the world’s most endangered feline, the Iberian lynx, even if the world meets its target for curbing carbon emissions, biologists said on Sunday.The gloomy forecast, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that without a dramatic shift in conservative strategy, the charismatic little wildcat seems doomed.The lynx ― Latin name “Lynx pardinus” ― grows to about a meter in length, weighs up to 15 kilos, and is characterized by its s

GENEVA (AP) ― After a quarter-century of searching, scientists have nailed down how one particularly rare subatomic particle decays into something else ― a discovery that adds certainty to our thinking about how the universe began and keeps running.The world’s top particle physics lab said it had measured the decay time of a particle known as a Bs meson into two other fundamental particles called muons, which are much heavier than but similar to electrons. It was observed as part of the reams of

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ― Researchers in Utah said Wednesday they discovered a new type of big-nosed, horned-faced dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago in the area of what is now the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.The discovery of the creature, named “Nasutoceratops titusi,” was described in the British scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and by officials at the National History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City.The dinosaur was a wide-bodied plant-eater, said

NEW YORK (AP) ― The fearsome bite of a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex left behind new evidence that the famous beast hunted for food and wasn’t just a scavenger.Researchers found a part of a T. rex tooth wedged between two tailbones of a duckbill dinosaur unearthed in northwestern South Dakota. The tooth was partially enclosed by regrown bone, indicating the smaller duckbill had escaped from the T. rex and lived for months or years afterward.Since the duckbill was alive and not just a carcass when it

The next U.S. national park may be out of this world ― literally.U.S. Congress members Donna Edwards and Eddie Bernice Johnson on Tuesday proposed legislature aimed at establishing a national park on the surface of the moon to commemorate NASA’s 1969-1972 Apollo program.“As commercial enterprises and foreign nations acquire the ability to land on the moon, it is necessary to protect the Apollo lunar landing sites for posterity,” said the bill, named Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act. The “Apollo L