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'Unusually large' tyrannosaur leg bone points to 10,000-pound behemoth

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A newly uncovered tyrannosaur leg bone is shaking things up in the dinosaur world. The leg bone uncovered in New Mexico belongs to an unusually large tyrannosaur--the group of dinosaurs that includes the mighty . The shinbone is three feet long and about five inches in diameter, only slightly smaller than the largest known specimen. The giant leg bone is detailed in a study published today in the journal .








The world's smallest sea turtle lives in a noisy ocean

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Noisy ships and industry are impacting critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. For the world's smallest sea turtles, life in the ocean is getting pretty noisy. These relatively little turtles (on average they're still 75 to 100 pounds) mostly found in the Gulf of Mexico already face fishing gear accidents, seacraft collisions, plastic pollution, and habitat deterioration, and now excess noise may be harming the critically endangered and rare Kemp's ridley sea turtles (). We say because even though these sea turtles share waters with extremely busy shipping lanes, scientists know very little about their underwater hearing.


Do trees really explode in extreme cold?

Popular Science

Do trees really explode in extreme cold? The answer involves frozen sap, the polar vortex, and a lot of internet exaggeration. Heavy snow fall, not explosions, are far more threatening to trees and yourself. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The majority of the United States is bracing itself for a potentially historic polar vortex winter storm this weekend .


What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US--and What We Don't

WIRED

What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US--and What We Don't A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain. Over the past weekend, when weather models first started forecasting a winter storm that would sweep over large parts of the country, Sean Sublette, a meteorologist living in Virginia, started telling people in his area to prepare for snow . At the time, Sublette says, "a lot of the data started to point to a substantial snow storm for the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, with significant ice farther southward into Carolina's Tennessee Valley." Then, Sublette woke up Wednesday morning.