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‘American Pickers’: Mike Wolfe & ‘Jersey Jon’ Szalay Run Into Real-Life Dinosaur Hunters
11+ hour, 32+ min ago (15+ words) American Pickers: Mike Wolfe & Jersey Jon Szalay Run Into Real-Life Dinosaur Hunters'IMDb...
11-Year-Old's Fossil Find 'Blew All of Our Minds"
13+ hour, 37+ min ago (402+ words) An 11-year-old's casual rock hunt in Wyoming ended with a big fossil find. While searching for quartz crystals and other rocks on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in southwest... 11-Year-Old's Fossil Find 'Blew All of Our Minds' An 11-year-old's…...
Dwarf sea cow found that grazed seafloors 21 million years ago
19+ hour, 35+ min ago (811+ words) Fossil bones have revealed a dwarf sea cow species that grazed seagrass on the seafloor of what is now the Arabian Gulf 21 million years ago. Its discovery shows that today's dugongs inherit a far older role, reshaping coastal ecosystems in…...
Woolly Rhino Remains Discovered in Alaska
20+ hour, 1+ min ago (1011+ words) Chris is the co-founder of 'Animals Around The Globe' and a fervent wildlife enthusiast with extensive travels across diverse ecosystems worldwide. From exploring the marine wonders in the Azores and witnessing the vast savannas of Kenya, to delving deep into…...
505-million-year-old fossils reveal a missing chapter of early animal evolution
20+ hour, 53+ min ago (321+ words) The Cambrian explosion, beginning roughly 540 million years ago, is famous for the sudden appearance of major animal groups. Fossil sites such as Canada's Burgess Shale capture that dramatic surge. What came next has been harder to document, fossils from the…...
Ancient Bird Fossil Reveals Shocking Secrets Scientists Never Expected
21+ hour, 13+ min ago (653+ words) Home " News " Ancient Bird Fossil Reveals Shocking Secrets Scientists Never Expected The fossil record has a way of humbling us. Just when we think we've got prehistoric life figured out, something unexpected turns up. Archaeopteryx, long celebrated as one of…...
Specimen collections preserve biodiversity across centuries
21+ hour, 52+ min ago (1121+ words) For centuries, the" Illinois Natural History Survey has worked to catalog and preserve the organisms that make up Illinois. The INHS maintains its mission to research the history and diversity of plants and animals all over Illinois, and also to…...
Japan’s lost lions: DNA analysis reveals cave cats ruled before extinction 10,000 years ago
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (388+ words) TOKYO, Feb 15 " Lions lived in a wide area of the Japanese archipelago tens of thousands of years ago, as analysis of fossil specimens that were believed be of tigers were revealed to belong to an extinct lion species, a team…...
Lyme Regis Museum receives award for Jurassic collection
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (551+ words) Arts Council England has awarded Lyme Regis Museum designated status A museum has received a prestigious award from Arts Council England for one its oldest collections. Lyme Regis Museum, which opened in 1923, has been given designated status for its Jurassic…...
11-Year-Old Goes Rock Hunting — Then He Finds a 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (453+ words) Kids" summer adventures often end in finding cool rocks. But 11-year-old Touren Pope found a prehistoric turtle. Back in July, the young boy was on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public land in southwest Wyoming with his grandparents, Patti and…...