06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
A female squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa) gathers nectar or pollen from pumpkin flowers. Squash bees are highly specialized and economically important pollinators of plants in the genus Cucurbita, including pumpkins, summer and winter squash, and gourds. [Image 1 of 3 related ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
A male squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa) gathers nectar or pollen from pumpkin flowers. Squash bees are highly specialized and economically important pollinators of plants in the genus Cucurbita, including pumpkins, summer and winter squash, and gourds. [Image 3 of 3 related ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
A female squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa) gathers nectar or pollen from pumpkin flowers. Squash bees are highly specialized and economically important pollinators of plants in the genus Cucurbita, including pumpkins, summer and winter squash, and gourds. [Image 2 of 3 related ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
While the radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory could only localize the fast radio burst to the area inside the two circles in this image, the Very Large Array pinpointed it as a dwarf galaxy within the square, shown at the intersection of the cross hairs in enlarged box. [Image 2 of 3 related ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
The globally distributed dishes of the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry network linked up with the 305-meter William E. Gordon Telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to localize the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves exact position within its host galaxy. [Image 1 of 3 ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
The Very Large Array pinpointed for the first time the location of a fast radio burst in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light-years from Earth. [Image 3 of 3 related images. Back to Image 1.] More about this image Astronomers have ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
Christopher Griffin, a geosciences masters student at Virginia Tech College of Science, reconstructs a partial specimen of an Asilisaurus fossil. Pictured are the animals back legs and tail. Griffin and colleagues studied 240-million-year-old fossils to gain insight into how dinosaurs ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
A partial skeleton of an Asilisaurus kongwe, a dinosaur cousin that lived roughly 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaurs. Researchers at Virginia Tech studied 240-million-year-old fossils to gain insight into how dinosaurs grew from hatchling to adult. [Image 4 of 4 ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
An artists rendering showing how an Asilisaurus kongwe would have walked and moved. The stripes are artistic license, although the animals "proto-feathers" are likely. Researchers at Virginia Tech studied 240-million-year-old fossils to gain insight into how dinosaurs grew from ...
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06/07/2017 01:06 PM EDT
Christopher Griffin, a geosciences masters student at Virginia Tech College of Science, holds two differently sized upper leg bones, one from a large specimen (right hand), the other from a smaller specimen (left hand), of the species Asilisaurus kongwe. The animals are believed to have ...
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