The 520-million-year-old gentle giant: Fossil reveals bizarre new species of whale-like creature that filtered plankton

• Fossils found in Greenland reveal marine animals used facial appendages to filter food from the ocean
• Forefathers of today's whales swam using flaps on the sides of their body
• Large appendages in front of their mouths could also capture larger prey
• The fossils revealed they then evolved into suspension feeders and their grasping appendages morphed into a filter

Evidence of gentle giants that swam in the oceans more than 500 million years ago has been discovered.
Fossils found in northern Greenland show that ancient, giant marine creatures used bizarre, whale-like facial appendages to filter food from the ocean.
The study described how the strange species, named Tamisiocaris, used huge, read morespecialised facial parts to filter plankton - similar to the way some modern whales feed today.

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GLASSHEAD BARRELEYE -new species of deep sea fish discovered

GLASSHEAD BARRELEYE -is a new spicies of deep sea fish  discovered.This fish is unusual in that it has 4 eyes -the extra set of mirror-like peepers on side of its head allow it to detect light around it.This is only  normally seen in Moluscs,Crustaceans and is used to locate prey,predatores,mates better.The fish is 7 inchs long and was caught off the TASMAN SEA between  AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND  and can  swim of depths  more thanb 3,000 feet.

ATLANTOCHELYS MORTONI fossils reunited

ATLANTOCHELYS MORTONI 1 of the biggest Turtles that lived  fossil fragments found.2 havles of bone found 160 years apart  -have indicated that it must have been  3 metres from tip to tail.The fisrst  fossil was found in new jersay in 1840 the other more recent

Thirty-nine new species of endemic cockroach discovered in the southwestern US and Mexico

A genus of cockroach in the poorly studied family Corydiidae has been revised for the first time since 1920. The revision has resulted in the discovery and description of 39 new species of Arenivaga, a genus which previously held nine species. The Corydiidae family of roaches is found worldwide and its constituents are frequently found in harsh, dry habitats not usually associated with cockroaches. They are also often subterranean in their habits making their presence easily overlooked. The study read more

New 'jellybean' spider species found on Queensland's Darling Downs

read moreScientists from the Queensland Museum have discovered two new species of goblin spiders on the state's Darling Downs.

Dr Barbara Baehr says her team discovered the Opopaea broadwater, also known as the jellybean goblin spider in Dalby.
They also discovered the Leichhardteus badius, or reddish brown swift spider, while exploring a rainforest in the Bunya Mountains last year.
The museum says the genus name Leichhardteus was chosen to honour German explorer and scientist Ludwig Leichhardt, who came to Australia in 1842 to study wildlife

ANZU WYLIEI-CHICKEN/OSTRICH LIKE DINOSAUR DISCOVERED

ANZU WYLIEI a new species of dinosaur discovered by U.S.A.  scientists.ANZU WYLIEI is a bird like creature with a bony crest  on top of a beaky head and a long lizard like tail.The dinosaur was identified by the partial remains of 3 skeletons found in NORTH and SOUTH DAKOTA.And it is believed this-

fossil offers clues to  how dinosaurs became extinct 66 million yeas ago.

CANCER IS IT OLDER THAN FIRST THOUGHT

Is cancer earlier than
 Thought as a human skeleton from 1200bc was discovered riddled with it.The skull  was the remains of a rich man who lived by the river Nile aged 35 years old. The skull was found in a SUDAN tomb by DURHAM UNIVERSITY ARCHAEOLOGY STUDENT MICHAELA BINDEN, cancer theories causes range from -smoke from wood fires,disease from parasites, genetic factors.

Stearns Bayou monster remains cryptozoological mystery

The first witnesses of the creature were Charles Cotton, Herman Nyland and Charles Shupe on Aug. 9.
“The sight they saw is described as that of a hideous-looking beast moving through the waters with a head like that of a hippopotamus,” the Tribune reported Aug. 13, 1909. “The body resembled a soft-shell turtle about 6 feet in diameter and it had a tail about 10 feet long. The under shell or belly of the beast gave out aread more

New Species of Cave-Dwelling Spiders Found in China

If spiders creep you out, stay away from the caves of southwest China, where researchers have found five new species of spiders with armored undersides and four eyes.
The South China Karst, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, features expansive stone forests, huge sinkholes, natural bridges and underground caves. It was in the caves that the new spiders were found, by a group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who have explored more than 2,000 caves in the area, according to a release. Their research has helped bring the total number of spider species in China from 2,300 to 4,300 in the past 10 years. (MORE: Threatened UNESCO World Heritage Sites)
The spiders belong to a group known as armored spiders, which feature a pattern that resembles body armor on their abdomens. Many of these spiders live in soil, but some, like the new species, prefer caves. Living in darkness can cause species to lose eyes over time, and indeed, two of the newread more

New species of praying mantis found

Nineteen new species of a tree-living praying mantis family have been discovered, tripling the group's diversity at a stroke.

The bark mantises from Central and South America were found in tropical forests and among specimens kept in museums.
Many of the newly described species are known only from a few specimens collected before 1950 from locations now heavily impacted by agriculture or urban development.
"Based on this study, we can predict that mantis groups with similar habitat specialisation in Africa, Asia and Australia will also be far more diverse than what is currently known," said Dr Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in the US.
"Many of these groups have never been studied other than by the scientists that originally described some of the species, which in some cases is more than 100 years ago. This is exciting because enormous potential exists for advancing our understanding of praying mantis diversity just by looking within our existing museum collections andread more

NEW TINY T-REX FOUND.

NANUQAURUR HOGLUNDI -is the  name  of a dinosaur found by experts .After anaalysis of fossilised skull found in Alaska -it is believed this dinosaur was half the size of a t-rex and reflected the scarer resources in the region.T-rex fossils are  normally found in the low to mid-latitudes 0f North America  and  Asia.

NEW CROCODILE DINOSAUR SPECIES FOUND.

KOUMPIODONTOSUCHUS APROSDOKITI-new species of crocodile dinosaur discoverd by studying 2 fossilised skull fragments of 2cm(60cm) long-found on Isle of Wright.The pieces  were a snout and back part of skull  and found 3 months apart.The dinosaur museum near sundown  fitted the 126 million year old pieces together to make a complete skull.

Cryptid. Scripted.

READ MOREThe plot of Cryptid: The Swamp Beast is fiction based on real sightings and weird events, but it’s a story nonetheless. Some of the people are actors, others are local people who help carry the narrative. But the show also features actual eyewitness interviews and experts weighing in throughout the dramatization that give the series real-world context." This is how the History Channel website describes the new cryptozoology adventure, capitalizing on the success of shows like Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot (who persistently remains unfound) and their infamous hoax, Mermaids: The New Evidence, as well as adding to the ever-growing cache of Louisiana-based reality-like shows, like their own hit series Swamp People-http://www.the-trades.com/articles/2014/03/06/cryptid-scripted

Vt. aquarium celebrates lake monster legend

read moreBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Lake Champlain's ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington, Vt. is hosting a celebration for the lake monster of legend known as Champ. ECHO's CHAMPFEST will feature a history of Champ sightings, portrayals of the creature and more information about the field of cryptozoology. The center says visitors will have a chance to draw Champ and make masks. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday there will be a story hour for guests 6 and under. Through Sunday, ECHO will show their film about the famous photo by Sandra Mansi that reportedly catches Champ surfacing in the lake. The 1977 photo by Mansi is on public display for the first time-http://www.chron.com/news/article/Vt-aquarium-celebrates-lake-monster-legend-5280148.php

Nearly 200 New Species of Parasitic Wasps Discovered in Costa Rica

Among the many animals that make their living off of other species, parasitic wasps are especially cunning. They inject other insects' larvae and eggs with their own eggs. When they hatch, the larval wasps gradually eat their victims from the inside out.

Now, with the help of ordinary Costa Ricans, scientists have discovered nearly 200 new species of these tiny killers in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in the country's northwest corner, with expectations that 20,000 more are waiting to be described.

The research, published last week in the journal ZooKeys, greatly expands the number of species in the genus Apanteles—parasitic wasps that prey on caterpillars.read more

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