85% of laying hens have broken keel bones

Researchers examined over 4,000 laying hens to find widespread broken keel bones. The culprit, they say, are too large eggs and too small hens.

Mathias Traczyk-Copenhagen • futurity
Sept. 8, 2021 ~5 min

The terms ‘ancestry’ and ‘race’ get muddled in forensics

A new paper finds inconsistencies in how forensics researchers talk about race and ancestry. Here's how the field can account for gene flow, migration, etc.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
July 16, 2021 ~9 min


1,500-year-old jawbone sheds light on gorilla-sized lemurs

DNA from a fossilized jawbone has allowed researchers to piece together the genome of one of the largest lemurs ever, which could weigh up to 350 pounds.

Robin Smith-Duke • futurity
July 12, 2021 ~8 min

Young T. rexes had a mighty strong bite

When they bit down, young T. rexes exerted up to 5,641 newtons of force. That's somewhere between the jaw forces exerted by a hyena and a crocodile.

Robert Sanders-UC Berkeley • futurity
June 8, 2021 ~11 min

Humans may have set foot in North America way earlier than thought

Radiocarbon dating of rabbit and deer bones found in a Mexican cave in the 1960s suggest the first humans arrived in North America about 30,000 years ago.

Angie Hunt-Iowa State • futurity
June 2, 2021 ~7 min

Billions of T. rexes may have roamed North America

About 20,000 adult T. rex probably lived in North America at any one time. That's a total of 2.5 billion over about 2 1/2 million years it walked the Earth.

Robert Sanders-UC Berkeley • futurity
April 20, 2021 ~11 min

Tiny bone chunk hints at how dogs got to the Americas

An ancient chunk of bone is the oldest from a domestic dog in the Americas, researchers believe. The find sheds light on how dogs got there.

Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo • futurity
Feb. 26, 2021 ~6 min

Radioactive ‘cement’ may be a safer way to treat spinal tumors

A radioactive cement injected into bone provides support and local irradiation of spinal tumors more safely than conventional radiation therapy.

Tom Vasich-UC Irvine • futurity
Feb. 18, 2021 ~6 min


600K alligator and bird poses hint how dinosaurs moved

3D imaging technology used to analyze nearly 600,000 limb poses of modern birds and alligators offers clues to how dinosaurs moved from place to place.

Corrie Pikul-Brown • futurity
Feb. 11, 2021 ~6 min

Method sculpts bone replicas in a petri dish

A platform called bio-thermal scanning probe lithography (bio-tSPL), takes a "photograph" of the bone tissue, and then uses the photograph to produce a replica of it.

Karl Greenberg-NYU • futurity
Feb. 10, 2021 ~6 min

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