Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken

Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken | Tardigrade trapped in amber is a never-before-seen species | These 125 million-year-old fossils may hold dinosaur DNA Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( October 6, 2021 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [Twitter](  [LIVESCIENCE]( [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken]( [Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken]( (James Robbins) All hail "chief dragon": The oldest meat-eating dinosaur ever discovered in the United Kingdom may sound monstrous, but the clawed predator was actually a pip-squeak, a new study finds. The chicken-size dinosaur lived in what is now Wales between 215 million and 200 million years ago, during the late Triassic period. It was likely an apex predator, despite its diminutive size, the researchers found, so, they named it Pendraig milnerae. Its genus name means "chief dragon" in Middle Welsh, a reference to the Medieval Welsh term "chief warrior," and its species name honors Angela Milner, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London who helped locate the fossils of the species in the museum's collections before her death in August. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (10/6) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] History & Archaeology [] [Tardigrade trapped in amber is a never-before-seen species]( [Tardigrade trapped in amber is a never-before-seen species]( (Harvard/NJIT, illustration by Holly Sullivan) Scientists discovered an incredibly rare fossil suspended in 16 million-year-old amber: a never-before-seen species of tardigrade, a pudgy, aquatic critter that rarely crops up in the fossil record. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (10/5) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [These 125 million-year-old fossils may hold dinosaur DNA]( [These 125 million-year-old fossils may hold dinosaur DNA]( (ZHENG Qiuyang) The remnants of DNA may lurk in 125 million-year-old dinosaur fossils found in China. If the microscopic structures are indeed DNA, they would be the oldest recorded preservation of chromosome material in a vertebrate fossil. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (10/6) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Math & Physics [] [Nobel prize in physics goes to trio whose research alerted the world to climate change]( [Nobel prize in physics goes to trio whose research alerted the world to climate change]( (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images) The 2021 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists whose work laid the foundations for how we understand complex physical systems, including Earth's climate. Syukuro Manabe, of Princeton University in New Jersey, and Klaus Hasselmann, formerly of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, will share one-half of the prize "for the physical modeling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming." Giorgio Parisi, of Sapienza University of Rome, will receive the other half "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which is responsible for selecting the Nobel laureates in physics, announced Tuesday (Oct. 5). Full Story: [LiveScience]( (10/5) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life]( [William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life]( (Courtesy of StoryFile) Got a question for "Star Trek" actor William Shatner? You could see it answered in an interactive conversation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and using video responses that Shatner prerecorded. This two-way conversational video platform was developed by StoryFile, and the company recently introduced the "conversation" with Shatner on its website as a way to commemorate the actor's 90th birthday this past spring. In the video, a jovial-looking Shatner sits in a room awaiting users' questions about his life and career, which can be posed as audio or text. Once Shatner is asked a question, the system swiftly selects an appropriate answer from the prerecorded options, providing the response in real time. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (10/6) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Curious Creatures [] [Adorable, bloodsucking sea parasite looks just like sushi]( [Adorable, bloodsucking sea parasite looks just like sushi]( (Aquamarine Fukushima) Do not adjust your screen, and do not reach for the soy sauce. What you see before you is a real, living, breathing marine animal currently on display in a Japanese aquarium — a creature that just happens to look exactly like a piece of salmon sushi. This snack of a sea creature is one of the most popular residents of Aquamarine Fukushima, a large aquarium on the east coast of Japan. In a Twitter post, aquarium staff identified the creature as an isopod — an order of long, flat, armor-plated crustaceans that are plentiful on land and in the sea. The nigiri-shaped superstar likely belongs to the genus Rocinela, which includes more than 40 species, aquarium caretaker Mai Hibino told Vice. 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For a long time scientists believed that there were only two types of catalysts: metals and enzymes. But the researchers created a third process called asymmetric organocatalysis that uses small organic molecules as catalysts, which opened up entirely new avenues for building molecules. Full Story: [LiveScience]( (10/6) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Daily Quiz [] POLL QUESTION: Are left-handed people smarter? (Learn the answer [here]() [Vote]( [Yes]( [Vote]( [No](   [Sign Up]( | [Update Profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Cookies Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions]( CONTACT US: [FEEDBACK](mailto:livescience@smartbrief.com) | [ADVERTISE]( © Future US, Inc. 555 11th ST NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004