The mighty Argentavis magnificens - the largest of the Teratorns and at around 70 kg the heaviest flying bird so far discovered in the fossil record - only the massive Pelagornis sandersi exceeds it in wingspan - but not in weight.
The evolution of the mighty Sauropods and everything you could ever want to know about the palaeobiology of the massive Megalochelys atlas - a tortoise the size of a small car.
A beautiful new reconstruction of the little Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus a basal neornithischian from the Jurassic of Russia. It's feathery integument is regarded as excellent evidence for proto-feathers being basal to the Dinosaurs as a whole (rather than just to the Coelurosaurs).
The Eurypterids - the mighty 'sea scorpions' that included in their ranks the biggest arthropods of all time and the largest one of the lot - the monstrous superpredator Jaekelopterus rhenaniae.
Eve the plesiosaur, the strange little Triassic reptile Longisquama insignis and the smoking gun that proves ancient man killed a Woolly mammoth around 45,000 years ago in Siberia.
The interesting research that suggests dinosaurs had lips and a life-size reconstruction of 'Bruce' the Mosasaur (Tylosaurus pembinensis) makes it's way to the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Manitoba.
Inbreeding in small Neanderthal populations made them up to 40% less reproductively fit than modern humans when the 2 populations lived side by side.
Although mostly weeded out by natural selection after inbreeding, non-Africans may have historically had approximately 1% lower reproductive fitness due to their Neanderthal heritage.
Originally Posted by CLL Dodge: “Inbreeding in small Neanderthal populations made them up to 40% less reproductively fit than modern humans when the 2 populations lived side by side.
Although mostly weeded out by natural selection after inbreeding, non-Africans may have historically had approximately 1% lower reproductive fitness due to their Neanderthal heritage.