Saturday citations: A weird, extinct life form; cholesterol hacking; interspecies prosociality of whales

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...
Forbes

Should We De-Extinct The Woolly Mammoth? No, Save The Elephants

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...
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Scientists Reveal a Strange Skull with Antlers Older Than the Dinosaurs

A fossil skull from a long-extinct animal captivated the public when it went on display at the South Australian Museum. Nicknamed the “crowned crocodile”, its debut coincided with the publication of a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Sharklike Fish With Weird, Buzz-Saw Jaws Sliced Through the Seas, Then Vanished. Now, Paleontologists Are Unraveling Their Secrets

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...