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In fantasy fiction‚ the dragon is one of the most common mythical beasts‚ but these giant flying lizards defy the reality that flying lizards have actually been found on Earth through many once upon a times—they were just really small. Case and point is this small fry from 200 million years ago‚ a Kuehneosaur‚ a flying […] The post Fascinating Species of 200 Million-year-old Flying Reptile Discovered in Britain appeared first on Good News Network.

The Sujimon minigame in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is so deep that calling it a “minigame” feels disrespectful. Catching ’em all is a huge part of Ichiban’s journey throughout Hawaii‚ but if you want to defeat the Discreet Four‚ you’ll need to awaken and evolve your Sujimon team. Just like Pokemon‚ leveling up your Sujimon team is key to defeating stronger trainers and climbing the Sujimon League ladder. Not all Sujimon are created equal‚ however‚ and some are much stronger than others. You can make every Sujimon stronger through awakening‚ but the best Sujimon can evolve into stronger versions of themselves. How to Awaken Sujimon in Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth Screenshot: PC Invasion Awakening Sujimon is an easy way to make your team a little bit stronger. With each awakening level‚ your Sujimon’s stats will slightly increase and a star will be added to their rank. Each Sujimon can be awakened three times‚...

Much like us‚ our furry friends are also kept awake at night by their worries‚ a Hungarian study published by The Royal Society scientific journal has shown.

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Sudden increases in methane concentrations in the Martian atmosphere have been a major puzzle for scientists‚ and the answer may lie in fluctuations in atmospheric pressure. The conclusion wouldn’t really change the prospects for life on our neighbor – but if it’s right‚ it would be a big step forward in knowing how to look for it.On Earth‚ methane‚ as a thousand fart jokes will tell you‚ is often produced by living organisms. So when Mars Express detected some‚ it gave a boost to hopes for life. Earthly methane comes from other sources as well‚ but Mars Express couldn’t see any active volcanoes or oil drilling projects‚ so the possibility microbes were responsible remained plausible. Curiosity has since detected it on site‚ but not consistently‚ suggesting an erratic source.What no one could work out at the time‚ and has remained mysterious ever since‚ was what was causing sudden increases. The most likely explanation was that pockets of gas were escaping from underground reservoirs‚ whether their original source was living or not. Yet all attempts to explain what caused these sudden releases failed – until now.“Understanding Mars’ methane variations has been highlighted by NASA’s Curiosity team as the next key step towards figuring out where it comes from‚” Los Alamos National Laboratory graduate student John Ortiz said in a statement. Ortiz is part of a team that simulated the movement of methane through networks of rock fractures and its release into the atmosphere. Their model suggests changes in air pressure and temperature determine when methane will escape. Drops in pressure encourage methane release‚ but temperature affects how well rocks trap the gas. On this basis‚ the model predicts pulses should be most common just before dawn in the Martian northern summer. During the day‚ the methane either escapes to higher altitudes or is destroyed by some unknown process.We might expect the timing to be something we would already know‚ but atmospheric sampling requires so much power that Curiosity can’t run its other instruments at the same time. Consequently‚ it takes measurements intermittently‚ mostly at night. These have led to the conclusion there is a seasonal‚ as well as daily‚ pattern to the methane spikes – but identifying exactly what that pattern is has proven harder. For the model to match observations‚ the authors found‚ that subsurface fractures need to exceed a density of 0.1 percent‚ so we may have learned something about the conditions in which the methane is trapped already.Curiosity’s controllers can adjust the timing of its sampling to test theories of when pulses should happen‚ and these findings could be put to use. “Our work suggests several key time windows for Curiosity to collect data‚” Ortiz said. “We think these offer the best chance of constraining the timing of methane fluctuations.”If the model is confirmed‚ it will allow existing and future rovers to know when to sample‚ and possibly allow them to track releases to their sources‚ as well as confirming the sort of rock formations in which to look. There is reason to think there is a methane source within Gale Crater – although as it continues its slow trek up Mt Sharp‚ it’s probably not going the right way to find it.The study is published open access in the journal JGR Planets. 

Job-hunting is never fun‚ and even just the thought of updating your resume can fill you with dread. But what if we told you there’s a way to hack your next interview‚ to strike that delicate balance of showing off your skills without sounding like an arrogant jerk? Well‚ luckily for you‚ psychologists might just have the answer.According to a recent study‚ “humorbragging” is an effective way to highlight your competencies while making someone actually want to hire you. The trick is to blend all that bare-faced self-promotion in with some humor‚ to cut through the discomfort that most of us feel when forced to talk ourselves up.“We realized that we sometimes use humor to overcome this awkwardness. Intrigued by this‚ we saw the potential of humor as a strategy to navigate the dilemma of balancing the need to demonstrate competence while also appearing likable and relatable‚” first author Jieun Pai‚ an assistant professor in the Business School at Imperial College London‚ told PsyPost.The study was divided into four separate investigations‚ with the first focusing on the dreaded resume. The team drew up two fictional resumes‚ identical in every way except that one included some humorbragging while the other was more straightforward.The two resumes were sent out to 345 companies‚ and the researchers gauged the level of interest in their hypothetical candidates through website visits and contact from recruiters.The resume that included the quip‚ “The more coffee you can provide‚ the more output I will produce‚” got three times as many responses‚ suggesting humor might be an effective means of catching employers’ attention in a crowded job market.The next part of the study focused on job interviews. Volunteers were asked to pretend to be a restaurant manager hiring a pastry chef‚ and were given two interview transcripts to assess. Again‚ one had a few humorous comments thrown in‚ while the other was a simple roundup of the candidate's experience.The humorbragging candidate was perceived to be warmer and more competent‚ with the assessors being more likely to offer that hypothetical person a job. That’s not to say you need to be cracking jokes at every given opportunity – that would get old really fast‚ unless you’re interviewing for a job as a stand-up comedian. But even just one amusing comment could give you the edge.“One of the more surprising elements of our findings was the significant impact a single line of self-enhancing humor could have on outcomes‚” Pai told PsyPost.The study then went on to look at entrepreneurial pitches from the TV show Shark Tank‚ looking at trends in investment offers as a function of humor in pitches. Focusing on male entrepreneurs only from the show’s first four seasons – 154 pitches in total – the researchers found that using humorbragging in a pitch was significantly more likely to lead to investment.The final part of the study looked to differentiate between humorbragging and other types of humor in interviews‚ confirming that humorbragging specifically appears to be the magic formula if you want to stand out from the interview crowd.Fascinating though these findings are‚ the authors acknowledge that the study has some limitations.“While our studies show the positive effects of humorbragging‚ a major caveat is the context and execution‚” Pai explained. Humor has to be tailored carefully to the situation‚ and what might work well in a job interview for one field could fall flat in another. There are also cultural and social factors to take into account – put simply‚ not everyone has the same sense of humor.So next time you’re filling out a job application‚ you might want to consider dropping in a casual humorbrag here and there – just maybe not on every line‚ and maybe not if there’s potential for a misunderstanding. Unless‚ of course‚ you actually are interviewing to be a stand-up comedian. In which case‚ sally forth with our blessing.  The study is published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.[H/T: PsyPost]

A monstrous oviraptor from the Hell Creek Formation has been discovered in the US. Analysis of the hell chicken’s hindlimb suggests it weighed about 78 kilograms (172 pounds) and is a new-to-science species‚ indicating that there was a greater diversity of caenagnathid dinosaurs in the Hell Creek ecosystem shortly before the asteroid hit.The Chicxulub impact crater is the witness mark of one of Earth’s worst days when an enormous asteroid hit‚ setting off a chain of events that would eradicate 70 percent of all species on Earth‚ including the dinosaurs. It’s long been debated whether dinosaurs were doing well‚ or already on their way out‚ before the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event‚ and one way we can study this is by looking at the diversity of animal groups in ecosystems.One theory suggests that the asteroid acted like the stick that broke the donkey’s back‚ pushing an already vulnerable group of animals into extinction. Evidence for this argument points to the diminishing number of species recorded in the fossil record in the lead-up to the asteroid hit.However‚ there are a few reasons why this could be painting the wrong picture. Firstly‚ this is based on the fossil record that we’ve found‚ and secondly‚ it relies on us having accurately identified species from scant remains.This new species of oviraptor is a testament to that‚ as it’s described only from a hind limb. However‚ researchers were able to glean enough information from that one leg to confidently assert that it doesn’t fit within the other known oviraptor species that were living in this region‚ at the same time.The new species was named Eoneophron infernalis. Its genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek “eo” for “dawn‚” and the genus name of the Egyptian vulture‚ Neophron‚ which is known as the “pharoah’s chicken”. The species name is a hat tip to where it was found‚ being Latin for Hell‚ and together the words equate to “Pharoah’s dawn chicken from Hell”. Nice.Features of the femur were unique‚ and not like the larger oviraptor Anzu wylei’s‚ making it unlikely it was simply a smaller individual of the larger species (an argument that’s gone back and forth between T. rex and Nanotyrannus). Furthermore‚ the histological analysis suggested that the animal was either adult or subadult when it died‚ so combined with the unique proportions and combinations of its features‚ it looks like we’re dealing with a new kind of hell chicken.“This smaller caenagnathid from the Hell Creek Formation has implications for the ecology and diversity of caenagnathids in the end-Maastrichtian‚” concluded the study authors. “As many as three taxa of varying body size may have inhabited the Maastrichtian ecosystems of the Hell Creek Formation‚ but like in other regions‚ a poor fossil record makes untangling the taxonomy of these species problematic.”“The ecology of caenagnathids likewise remains poorly understood‚ but E. infernalis expands the range of morphological variation within the family and suggests that caenagnathid diversity in Laurasia remained largely stable through the Campanian-Maastrichtian‚ and these dinosaurs remained successful components of Laurasian ecosystems until the K-Pg extinction.”The study is published in PLOS ONE.

Another day‚ another blurring of the lines between reality and fiction. There's a decent chance you’re one of the millions of people who’s watched the viral video of ants marching around a speaker that’s blasting AC/DC in a "death spiral”.  We hate to break it to you‚ but the video is fake. The post (below) is the handiwork of video-editing TikToker Gabriel Benício. After sharing the original video this week – which racked up almost 12 million likes and over 90‚000 comments in a day – he posted another video explaining how he made the clip using slick video editing techniques. Don’t be dismayed if you were duped‚ many others thought it was real too (including myself‚ if I’m totally honest). “ITS NOT REAL?!‚” said one of the top comments on Gabriel's follow-up video.“I thought it was real ‚” another comment reads.“The fact that people didn’t see it wasn’t real makes me worry for the future‚” said another.              IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.It’s a convincing clip because some species of army ants do perform this strange behavior. An ant mill is a natural phenomenon that occurs when a group of ants run in a densely packed circle‚ continuously following one another in an endless loop. It’s also known as a death spiral or ant death circle as the insects can eventually die of exhaustion if the loop isn’t broken. Like most screw-ups‚ death spirals are essentially caused by a breakdown of communication. When army ants go out on a mission to forage and hunt for food‚ they communicate their movement patterns through pheromone trails. Each traveling ant leaves behind a trail of chemical signals that other ants follow. Under certain circumstances‚ however‚ the message of the pheromones can become lost. Instead of following one another toward a target‚ they simply follow the ants in front. Those ahead‚ however‚ are doing the same. Like a dog chasing its tail‚ they end up going nowhere but round and round in circles.              IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.Ant mills were first described by American naturalist William Beebe in the 1920s who observed a circling colony of ants that reportedly spanned 365 meters (1‚200 feet) in circumference. It’s not perfectly clear how the phenomenon occurs in natural settings‚ although scientists have been able to induce artificial death spirals in a lab. Rest assured‚ this won’t be the last time a viral sensation turns out to be computer-generated fakery. At least in this instance‚ the video's creator was transparent about the process and clearly showed how he produced the clip. Many similar instances have occurred in the past too. Lest we forget the ”baby platypus" that turned out to be a rock or the scandal of the two bees appearing to work together to open a soda bottle.

This strange story took place at the beginning of the twentieth century and was published in the Coshocton Daily Age newspaper in the town of Coshocton‚ Ohio‚ USA. It all started on September 7‚ 1906‚ about a year before the strange events. A local resident of Coshocton‚ known as Mrs. Finton‚ shot an unknown tramp with a shotgun who tried to attack her right on the territory of her home. The woman shot the man at point-blank range‚ but he had enough strength to run away and hide in the nearby forest. Later‚ Mrs. Finton’s neighbors tried to find him following the bloody trail and rushed to her aid‚ but the traces of the tramp were lost in the forest and the body was never discovered. People believed that the tramp eventually died and was lying somewhere in the forest‚ because he‚ apparently‚ had lost a lot of blood. Since then‚ strange things began to happen in Mrs. Finton’s house‚ most reminiscent of such a phenomenon as a poltergeist. First of all‚ stones began to fall on the roof of the house‚ and there were so many of them that it created the impression of “stone rain.” This happened at least three times and many people witnessed this phenomenon. It was said that pebbles “the size of biscuits” fell onto the roof of the Finton house from somewhere from a great height‚ as if from the sky. Sometimes pieces of earth and torn out turf fell along with them. In one case‚ a whole group of men gathered in the courtyard of a house saw many stones falling from the sky onto the roof‚ and they all agreed that it was not visible where the stones came from. At the same time‚ the stones flew with such great force that they bounced off the roof and fell into the yard‚ sometimes hitting people‚ but without causing them serious injuries. When the pebbles were collected and examined‚ they looked quite unusual and did not at all resemble local pebbles. People from all over the area were scared and very confused by these incidents. And finally someone remembered that all these strange things began shortly after Mrs. Finton shot the tramp. At the same time‚ the details of the incident with the tramp became clear. It turns out that an unknown homeless man entered the house without asking and began to rather brazenly ask Mrs. Finton to give him food. The woman ordered him away saying she would call her husband‚ who was in the house. In fact the husband was away at his work. The tramp went away and returned within half an hour and told the woman she had lied to him‚ that her husband was not there. Then he said he’d kill her‚ and hurled a heavy bit of iron at her‚ which he had picked up about the barn‚ and it struck the house. And she grabbed her husband’s shotgun and shot him. In general‚ the tramp got it right and the woman only defended herself. But was there really any connection between the angry tramp and the strange rain of stones that fell on the Finton house? Maybe the spirit of the tramp was trying to avenge his death in this way? Unfortunately‚ the continuation of this story was not written in the newspaper and it is unknown whether the stone rains stopped or continued for a long time. The post Woman shot a tramp and a poltergeist appeared in her house appeared first on Anomalien.com.