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Labeled just 'feline,' skull in a New York museum drawer turns out to be a 5-million-year-old saber-toothed cat
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (377+ words) A postdoctoral researcher recently identified a 5-million-year-old saber-toothed cat fossil " but the discovery didn't happen in the field. Instead, the previously unrecognized specimen was found tucked away in a drawer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York…...
Museum f'r Naturkunde Berlin: Ammonoids and other marine animals of the Indusian (Early Triassic)
4+ hour, 56+ min ago (99+ words) Research in the museum The museum's development into the 21st century by Dr David Ware (Palaeontology Section) Anyone interested in palaeontology is warmly invited to attend these museum meetings. All guests are welcome to attend the talks. They begin at 6. 00 pm…...
Dino Discovery Day a success at Choctaw County Library
3+ hour, 47+ min ago (177+ words) Red Hills MSNews. com Dino Discovery Day a success at Choctaw County Library Children at the Choctaw County Library unearthed a series of dinosaur mysteries on Thursday afternoon, June 25. The library held its Dino Discovery Day from 2 to 4 p. m. , where kids…...
OU Paleontologists Make "One in a Million" Discovery of Soft Tissue Preserved in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil
17+ hour, 21+ min ago (905+ words) The nearly impossible natural conditions required to preserve soft tissue as fossils mean that the preserved tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis, described by Cole and her colleagues in a groundbreaking new study, represent one of only two known examples of…...
New raptor in Argentina had the same curved claw as China's velociraptors
9+ hour, 20+ min ago (294+ words) Scientists have discovered Velociraptor fossils in Argentina that have features similar to those found in China, over 11, 800 miles away. That shared feature is helping researchers explore how closely connected some dinosaur lineages may have been in the ancient world. According…...
Hanging out with dinosaurs
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (110+ words) KPCNews Arizona Perkins holds a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur after TAG Art Co. of Fort Wayne led a summer reading program about dinosaurs at the Butler Public Library. There was a problem reporting this. Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar,…...
Unearth a Story doesn\'t just mean dinosaurs. Story Explorers at our Bloomingdale branch and other branches learned about prehistoric animals such as woolly mammoths as well!
18+ hour, 53+ min ago (29+ words) Unearth a Story doesn't just mean dinosaurs. Story Explorers at our Bloomingdale branch and other branches learned about prehistoric animals such as woolly mammoths as well! Johnson City Press...
The Great Summer Read: Jurassic Park
13+ hour, 47+ min ago (243+ words) The Great Summer Read is a joint reading program for teens and adults with fun activities, trivia, and prizes. We are reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, and there will be weekly trivia questions based on the book starting Saturday,…...
Frozen history: Rare Antarctic dinosaur fossil rediscovered in office drawer
10+ hour, 48+ min ago (258+ words) Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven't yet identified the species it belongs to....