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Baby Dinosaur Fossil Found in South Korea Is Part of a Newly Discovered Species
10+ hour, 15+ min ago (15+ words) Baby Dinosaur Fossil Found in South Korea Is Part of a Newly Discovered Species'People.com...
Scientists Discovered a New Dinosaur Species in South Korea, and It’s Named After a Cartoon
5+ hour, 23+ min ago (260+ words) Paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species and named it after a beloved Korean cartoon character. According to a study published in the Fossil Record, paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species, the first…...
Boy Discovers Megalodon Remains, Potentially Millions of Years Old, Washed Up on Eastern State Shore
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (395+ words) After years of searching with his dad, fifth-grader Jaxon Hinton uncovered a remarkably preserved prehistoric shark tooth estimated to be 18 million years old For as long as he can remember, Jaxon Hinton has spent weekends scanning the sandy shoreline of…...
Rare evidence of a fight between apex predators shows an enormous plesiosaur was eaten by an even bigger prehistoric fish
17+ hour, 47+ min ago (834+ words) Researchers have identified the giant fish, Xiphactinus, behind a fatal bite preserved in a Polycotylus plesiosaur fossil. The discovery comes from a broken tooth embedded in the throat of a 13-foot (4.0-meter) marine reptile from ancient Alabama. That single injury…...
Ice age elephants traveled 300 km before being hunted by Neanderthals
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (469+ words) During the Ice Age, massive elephants once roamed across Europe'and new research shows they traveled surprisingly long distances before encountering Neanderthals. A study of ancient elephant remains from Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany is shedding new light on how these giant…...
How Viking Merchants and a One-Toothed Whale Sold the World on the Unicorn
1+ week, 5+ day ago (156+ words) Some "unicorn horns" reached lengths of up to ten feet. Merchants focused on Greenland to prevent travelers from debunking the origin of their sacred wares. The Ancient Greeks were the first to record proof of "unicorns" existing before the Vikings…...
New Plant-Eating Dinosaur Species Found in Korea
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (439+ words) Scientists have identified a new dinosaur species in Korea for the first time in 15 years, adding a notable entry to the country's thin skeletal fossil record. The animal, named Doolysaurus huhmini, was a small, two-legged plant-eater that lived between 113 million…...
Adorable baby dinosaur so cute it’s named after Korean cartoon
11+ hour, 17+ min ago (425+ words) An artist's interpretation of a juvenile Doolysaurus huhmini. It is depicted alongside birds and other dinosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous in what is now South Korea. (Jun Seong Yi / SWNS) A newly discovered baby dinosaur is so cute it…...
New dinosaur species found in South Korea in groundbreaking discovery
12+ hour, 30+ min ago (416+ words) Scientists in South Korea have found a new species of dinosaur that was previously unknown. Many of us have a particular idea of the creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago. Visions of T-Rexes and Stegosaurus fighting for…...
The earth remembers | UCT News
16+ hour, 28+ min ago (750+ words) Here, in the early years of the Cape colony, the unnamed and overlooked were hastily and informally buried, some with shackles or slave hawkers" tags: indigenous peoples, labourers " lives that passed without monuments but not without meaning. What had been…...