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Four giant three-toed prints found in 2025 near Marmarth, North Dakota turned out to be the first trackway ever attributed to an adult T. rex, and the 66.5-million-year-old sequence records a 13-foot stride — the predator was strolling at 3.5 to 4.5 mph, about the pace of a brisk human walk
5+ hour, 29+ min ago (23+ words) Paleontology owns thousands of Tyrannosaurus rex bones, dozens of skeletons, and exactly one thing it never had until this week: a recorded walk....
Genesis of Paleo at Princeton: 150 Years of Princeton Paleontology
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (409+ words) 150 Years of Princeton Paleontology brings real fossils from the University’s Geosciences collection, alongside the scientific publications describing them, to tell the story of the scientific lineage that founded modern vertebrate paleontology. On a hot June day in 1876, three Princeton undergraduates…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Rare Ice Age discovery found in California creek
19+ hour, 29+ min ago (332+ words) A scientist surveying a creek in California's Bay Area for an environmental restoration project stumbled upon something far older than expected: a remarkably well-preserved mastodon tooth believed to be at least 10,000 years old, Yahoo! News reported. Researchers say the discovery…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
9+ hour, 22+ min ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
6+ hour, 34+ min ago (762+ words) For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans....
T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery
11+ hour, 10+ min ago (232+ words) A T. rex apparently went for a stroll through what is now North Dakota, and scientists just traced its steps. Researchers report finding the first known series of footprints from... T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery A T. rex apparently went for a…...
While surveying a California creek for threatened red-legged frogs, a scientist spotted what looked like a rock; it was an intact mastodon molar estimated to be 10,000 years old
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (372+ words) A routine field survey in a California redwood forest has led to an extraordinary glimpse into the Ice Age. A scientist searching a San Mateo County creek for signs of habitat conditions for threatened California red-legged frogs spotted an oddly…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
11+ hour, 33+ min ago (635+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
Geologists Searching for Copper in China Drilled 1,500 Feet Underground and Found a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead
16+ hour, 4+ min ago (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...