[PaleoOrnithology • 2025] Baminornis zhenghensis • Short -short bird of the latest Jurassic of China

Baminornis zhenghensis Chen, METRO. Wang, Dong, GRAM. Zhou, X. Xu, Deng, L. Xu, Zhang, L. Wang, Du, G. Lin, M. Lin and Z. Zhou, 2025 Reconstruction of life by Zhao Chuang Abstract Recent macroevolutive studies predict a diversification of the first birds during the Jurassic period, but the fossil record of unquestionable jurássic birds is…

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Aracanidae) collected from New Zealand

Abstract A new Boxfish, Kentrocapros flavimaculatusIt is described on the basis of two collected samples of New Zealand. The new species is distinguished from all other species from Kentrocapros Through the following combination of characters: Many yellow spots on the side sides of the body, a different column in the middle of each dorsolateral crest…

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #645 – Watts Up With That?

The Week That Was: 2025-06-07 (June 7, 2025)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels…If it is consensus, it isn’t science.  If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.”— Michael Crichton, Aliens Cause Global Warming, Caltech Michelin Lecture…

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