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Spider-Man 2 Isn’t Just a Great Spider-Man Game, It’s a Decent Superman Game Too
My favourite part of the first two Insomniac Spider-Man games is travelling across the city. The ability to swing from building to building, soaring through the air, all while taking in the sights and sounds of the city is just as enjoyable, if not more so, than anything else in the game. So, earlier this…
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This Ancient Reptile Is Not a Lizard, Don’t Call It a Lizard
150 million years ago, a prehistoric reptile unlike modern lizards slinked around what is now Wyoming. An ancient rhynchocephalian, the insect-eating animal’s discovery could shed light on the persistence of its living relative, the tuatara.
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Intriguing Fossil Reptile Offers Clues to the Origin of Snakes and Lizards
Twenty years since it was found in Argentina, a fossil of a 231.4-million-year-old lepidosaur has been described in detail by palaeontologists. This animal has features place it before the split between lizards, snakes, and sphenodonts (a branch of reptiles that today only includes the strange tuatara). The fossilised skull recently underwent CT scanning, and an…
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This Tiny Amphibian That Outlived the Dinosaurs Provides the Earliest Example of a Rapid-Fire Tongue
Albanerpetontids, or “albies” for short, are the cute little salamander-like amphibians you’ve likely never heard of. Now extinct, Albies had a dream run. They’d been around since the Middle Jurassic around 165 million years ago, and probably even earlier. They lived through the age of dinosaurs (and saw out their extinction), then lived through the…