The harm included cell death and allergic reactions and the research is the first to show this happens at levels relevant to human exposure.
Together, these two sets of footprints from the early part of the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago) offer a unique snapshot of dinosaur mobility and behavior.
They were both suddenly underwater, being pulled toward a large black vacuum that seemed to be guzzling anything and everything into its wide, open mouth.
Knowing how and why water transforms into ice is essential for understanding a wide range of natural processes.
But new research led by Peter Ryan, an ornithologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, shows that far out at sea, the light from passing ships can have a similar, sometimes deadly, effect.
During their study, researchers discovered two million littered masks were collected across 11 counties.
Right now, its melting is responsible for about 4 percent of global sea level rise.
The faces of the reptiles were so messed up, Matthew Allender says, experts first thought they’d been run over by cars.
“We all knew that this was likely a once in a lifetime experience,” since the elusive creature is seen so very rarely, Knowles said.
It would also offer a window into the early day of our distant ancestors’ evolutionary forays into bipedalism.
The overall amount of municipal waste created in the US is also two to eight times greater than comparable countries around the world, the report found.
“We don’t want to study them to extinction.”
In action, the bots (dubbed “xenobots” by their inventors), even look like Pac-Man.
Phthalates have a host of handy industrial uses, from softening plastic and binding makeup to making ink stick to plastic bags.
Today, the legend of that enchanted blade lives on… in the name of a prehistoric worm that you could crush between two fingers.
But the idea isn’t just to replace plastic with something less bad: The Notpla team believes it’s possible to improve on its performance.
They reproduce rapidly, and “they have no natural enemies here in Taiwan,” he added.
Conjectures are mathematical ideas that are suspected to be true but have yet to be proven in all circumstances.
“We know for the first time that planets really can exist about really quite massive stars,” says Janson.