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...years, scientists assumed those distinguishing features, along with T. rex's relatively puny arms, had evolved as the creature itself got bigger. "When a building gets bigger," says Stephen Brusatte, a former graduate student of Sereno's and now at the American Museum of Natural History, "you have to build it differently. That's what we thought happened with...
...they know better. Sereno, Brusatte and a team of American and Chinese scientists - plus a Massachusetts ophthalmologist - have just announced the discovery of a 125 million-year-old animal that had the same distinctive build as T. rex, but at only about 1/100 the weight. "It's all there," says Sereno, "including the dinky arms." But the new dinosaur, named Raptorex kriegsteini and described in the online journal Science Express, would have been a bit taller and about as heavy as an adult human. Says Brusatte: "It really throws a wrench into the story...
With a name like “The Donkey Show,” it should be unsurprising that an appropriate adjective to describe Diane Paulus’ inaugural production at the newly named Oberon—the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) theatrical club space—is “loose.” In the world of theater, the word might have a negative connotation, but in the world of sex, drugs, and nightclubs—well, it’s just what we like to hear. “The Donkey Show?...
...medical student Annie Le's murder on Wednesday, and an arrest was clear to be imminent by late Wednesday night, New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said at the time. Clark was the last person to see Le alive, computer records confirmed on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Vietnamese-American student was strangled to death and found stuffed behind a wall on Sunday—the same day she was supposed to be married to her longtime boyfriend...
...midst of a revolutionary shift in American soccer towards a traditional amateur/professional set-up akin to European club soccer, our national team and professional clubs still rely on college soccer as a valuable resource for young talent...