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Rex's Dino Store: Visit the subway newsstand that's a real fossil
7+ hour, 51+ min ago (288+ words) PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn -- The newsstands in subway stations have largely become a thing of the past. Rex's Dino Store at Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope, Brooklyn is a one-of-a-kind example. Down the stairs and around the corner a red,…...
New Dinosaur Species Leaves Experts 'Flabbergasted"
8+ hour, 46+ min ago (449+ words) A newly described dinosaur seems to have come with its own built-in egg-grabber. In a study published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of... New Dinosaur Species Leaves Experts 'Flabbergasted' A newly described dinosaur seems…...
Queen bumblebees are poor foragers thanks to sparse tongue hair
11+ hour, 9+ min ago (288+ words) Dense, fine hairs on the tongues of bumblebees allow them to pick up nectar with each slurp A bumblebee worker (left) and a queen (right) drink a sugar solution in a laboratory. The larger queens are less efficient foragers, due…...
New species of giant green anaconda discovered in never-before-seen footage
11+ hour, 18+ min ago (517+ words) This is Ecuador's Wild Wild West. Never-before-seen video shows the dramatic moment that scientists encountered a new anaconda species while filming the National Geographic travel series "Pole to Pole with Will Smith." The footage was captured last year, but was…...
Evolution debate reignited after 'missing link is found in cave
12+ hour, 18+ min ago (946+ words) Scientists have uncovered ancient human remains that could represent a crucial link in our evolutionary history. Fossils, including bones and teeth, dating back 773,000 years, were unearthed in a Moroccan cave, displaying a mosaic of modern and primitive features." The face…...
Study: Late Ordovician Mass Extinction Cleared Way for First Fishes | Sci.News
12+ hour, 37+ min ago (492+ words) Life reconstruction of Sacabambaspis janvieri, a species of armored jawless fish that lived during the Ordovician period. Image credit: Kaori Serakaki, OIST. Most vertebrate lineages are first recorded from the mid-Paleozoic, well after their Cambrian origin and Ordovician invertebrate biodiversification…...
Archaeologists uncovered the remains of man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal lion encounter
13+ hour, 9+ min ago (466+ words) Archaeologists recently uncovered'the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago " and survived a brutal encounter with a lion. A study published in the February 2026 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports focuses on a Late Eneolithic…...
Rare lichens thriving due to traditional farming
13+ hour, 20+ min ago (8+ words) Rare lichens thriving due to traditional farming'AOL.com...
Inside the classroom: Time traveling through geology
15+ hour, 11+ min ago (899+ words) A popular course, GEOL 130 opens a portal to experience prehistory" Eager to delve into the question of whether a Tyrannosaurus rex could catch and snatch a Jeep Wrangler, Prof. Dave Sunderlin opened his lab by showing a classic scene from…...
Fossilized Bones Can Reveal Chemical Traces of Ancient Biology, New Research Demonstrates
15+ hour, 23+ min ago (788+ words) New research demonstrates that fossilized bones, which preserve'physical records of ancient life,'can also retain chemical traces of the metabolism of those life forms. The discovery, detailed in a'new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University, opens…...