BioMed Central

Vets raise health concerns about the the popularity of small pedigree dogs, such as the Pug and the French bulldog, in Australia, because of breathing difficulties and skin conditions commonly seen in these breeds.   

Canine Genetics and Epidemiology 2016

Two scorpion fossils found in the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany, represent the first complete body fossils of scorpions from the early Permian period – about 291 million years ago. There is evidence that they were a male and a female so the researchers who discovered them dubbed them Jogi and Birgit.

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016