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[NMaude]

It would appear that palaeontologists now know why T. Rex had such puny forearms:

Thanks to a study that came out just a few months ago, we now officially know what T. rex’s tiny arms were actually for. In this video, I break down that study in detail.

 

[NMaude]

An interesting video into why some people are mosquito magnets, from Anton Petrov:

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about mosquito magnets
Links:
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltex...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...ltext/S2589-0042%2826%2902384-9&v=fREwyj53FPg
https://theconversation.com/mosquitoe...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...-people-more-than-others-289647&v=fREwyj53FPg
https://theconversation.com/skin-mout...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...ut-that-has-a-microbiome-208516&v=fREwyj53FPg
Other videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyMbXCzcS0k
• Surprise Evidence That Gut Microbes Direct...

• Direct Connection Between Gut Microbiome a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh6Hy420-eQ
#mosquito #biology #microbiome

0:00 Mosquitos! Why me?
1:35 Types of mosquitos
3:20 New study tests everything
4:50 Results
5:30 What attracts them?
6:40 Unexpected findings
10:10 Implications and conclusions

 

[NMaude]

The World's scariest flying predators from each period:

 

[NMaude]

The Chixulub impactor might not be the whole story in regards to the KT extinction event that ended the non-avian dinosaurs:

Think you know what killed the dinosaurs? Think again. Breakthrough evidence is reshaping everything we knew about Earth’s most famous mass extinction, and revealing that the famous asteroid impact might not tell the whole story

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DedLVjeE0
0:00 The Dinosaur Extinction
2:24 Iridium
3:41 Chicxulub Crater
6:21 Fish Fossils
7:53 Why Was It So Deadly?
11:27 15-Year Winter
13:53 Double Impact
20:43 Volcanic Eruptions
23:53 Earth’s Recovery
26:35 Fungi Take Over


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References:
“Extinction Day”, via imperial.ac.uk https://astrumspace.info/extinctday
“The Chicxulub File: Discovering the K-Pg Mass Extinction”, via researchgate.net https://astrumspace.info/chicxfile
“A Seismically Induced Onshore Surge Deposit at the K-Pg Boundary”, via nih.gov https://astrumspace.info/kpgsurge
“Dinosaur-Destroying Asteroid Struck in Spring”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/springext
“A Steeply-Inclined Trajectory for the Chicxulub Impact”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/chicxtraj
“Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Shark and Ray Diversity”, via sciencedirect.com https://astrumspace.info/sharkdiv
“Five-Mile Asteroid Impact Crater Below Atlantic”, via hw.ac.uk https://astrumspace.info/nadir
“Fungal Proliferation Before and After the K-Pg Mass Extinction”, via pnas.org https://astrumspace.info/kpgfungi
“U-Pb Geochronology of the Deccan Traps”, via science.org https://astrumspace.info/deccantraps
“Space Dust Reveals Rapid Evolution After Dino-Killing Asteroid”, via science.org https://astrumspace.info/spacedust

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Credits:
Narrator: James Stewart
Writer: Milla Harrison
Video Editor: Shane Cooke
Animator: Peter Sheppard
Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava
Script Editor: Damaris McColgan
Thumbnail Designers: Peter Sheppard, Juane Dames
Publishing Lead: Georgina Brenner
Production Coordinator: Rose Unwin
Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock
Producers: Alex McColgan, James Stewart
Head of Astrum: Jess Jordan
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan

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https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/astrumearth
#AstrumEarth #Astrum #Dinosaurs

 

[NMaude]

An interesting PBS Eons video concerning mutant plants that were a result of the Great Dying:

What was it about the Great Dying that caused a global age of mutant plants? And could figuring it out help us avoid triggering the next one?