KERA News Originally Posted: June 29, 2016 CT scans aren’t just for people — they can also be used on dinosaurs. A skull from the Pawpawsaurus was discovered in North Texas in the early ’90s. It was recently scanned, allowing scientists to digitally rebuild the dinosaur’s brain. Louis Jacobs is a professor of paleontology at […]
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Star Telegram Originally Posted: June 17, 2016 A couple of giant sinkholes in the West Texas oil patch are apparently expanding, and might eventually converge into one gigantic hole. The sinkholes are about a mile apart and sit between Wink and Kermit off I-20 west of Midland-Odessa. They were caused by lots of oil and gas extraction, which peaked […]
Preston Hollow People Originally Posted: June 3, 2016 After a year of planning and preparation, a group of students hosted the first TEDxGreenhillSchool on April 2. The idea stemmed from a weekly tradition started by Greenhill upper school science teacher Chris Bigenho, who started emailing various TED Talks each Tuesday. These quickly became known as […]
Live Science Originally Posted: May 26, 2016 The armored cousin of the Ankylosaurus dinosaur didn’t have a football-size club on its tail, but it did have a super sense of smell, said scientists who examined its skull. The Cretaceous-age Pawpawsaurus campbelli walked on all fours and lived in ancient Texas about 100 million years ago, the researchers said. It […]