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UCLA researchers analyzed isotopic signatures in the tooth enamel of Thomas the T. rex, a well-preserved 66-million-year-old specimen from Montana, to estimate its internal body temperature. They calculated it at roughly 36.3 degrees Celsius, close to the 98.6-degree average for humans and comparable to elephants and large flightless birds like ostriches.
Researchers at UCLA's RePL lab are developing Prela, a query language that replaces SQL's multi-column tables with simple binary relations of just two columns. A tutorial shows how a wide table, such as one listing movie IDs, titles and years, can be broken into three binary relations, each pairing a row number with a single column's value, and demonstrates a movie-search query that takes 11 lines in Prela versus more than 20 in equivalent SQL.
Evolutionary ecologist Daniel Blumstein and his UCLA team launched a free OnlyFans account called OnlyMarms to raise money for their long-running yellow-bellied marmot research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. The family-friendly page shares wildlife camera footage of marmots and relies on viewer tip donations, having already brought in over $4,000 and roughly $100 daily.