Jay Falk inspects a tall reed resembling bamboo that grows abundantly along the banks of dry Shoal Creek and smiles when he sees tiny holes in one of the side shoots. It was here, he's sure: a nonstinging wasp close to his heart. In its larval stage, it lived inside the shoot and ate. Once it became an adult female, it bore a hole and exited, o...
J Craig Wheeler and Robert Quimby's discovery of brightest supernova named a top 10 scientific discovery in 2007 by Time magazine. Read the article here.
Paleontologist Brenda Chinnery-Allgeier identifies an unusual dino fossil from Montana that's an early relative of the Triceratops. Read the National Geographic story here.
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