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Volunteers spotted a hadrosaur protruding from a Canadian hillside, with fossilized skin still attached
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (125+ words) A volunteer's keen eye in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park led to the discovery of a remarkably preserved dinosaur fossil, featuring significant portions of intact skin. This rare find, unlike typical bone discoveries, offers unprecedented insights into dinosaur texture, coverings, and…...
A Student Discovers 75-Million-Year-Old Dragonfly Fossil Unlike Anything Found in Canada
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (700+ words) They were hunting for fossilized leaves. Instead, a student cracked open a rock and found something Canada had never seen before, hiding in the land of the dinosaurs. The rock split open to reveal not the plant impression the Mc…...
Student discovers greyhound-like crocodile and names it after his high school teacher
2+ hour ago (218+ words) He didn't let me settle either. He was very good at challenging people and helping students be the best they could be. Above all, he's a really funny, authentic, and kind guy." A physics teacher in Wales pushed a curious…...
Researchers identify rare 240-million-year-old amphibian fossil discovered in Australia
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (249+ words) Canberra, May 6 (SANA) Researchers in Australia have identified a rare fossil of a giant predatory amphibian dating back around 240 million years after it was discovered embedded in a garden retaining wall, according to a study published by the University of…...
Tyrannosaur fossil shows dinosaurs were cannibals that
6+ hour, 37+ min ago (135+ words) ate their relatives'inkl Tyrannosaur fossil shows dinosaurs were cannibals that ate their relatives - A new fossil discovery suggests that some tyrannosaur species were opportunistic scavengers, even consuming the remains of their larger T. rex relatives. - Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark…...
The new fossil species that was hiding in plain sight for 100 years
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (782+ words) In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave in Margaret River by Lindsay Hatcher, an avid caver. There was something a bit odd about this skull, and we were able to…...
The Surprising Reason T. rex May Have Sounded More Like a Bird
9+ hour, 41+ min ago (213+ words) Godrej Consumer Q4 Results: Profit rises on strong domestic demand, volume growth markets stocks earnings How to watch the Northern Lights tonight There was an excellent coordination among Army, Navy, Air Force: Air Marshal Patnaik (Retd.) on Operation Sindoor Shashi Shekhar…...
150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx fossil sheds light on bird evolution from dinosaurs |
2+ hour ago (297+ words) 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx fossil sheds light on bird evolution from dinosaurs'The Times of India An ancient archaeopteryx fossil is offering new insight into the early evolution of birds from dinosaurs Dating back around 150 million years, this remarkable discovery is helping scientists…...
Neandertals used rhinoceros teeth as tools
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (387+ words) The teeth of extinct rhinos, found in Spain and France, were likely used to shape stone tools The narrow-nosed rhinoceros, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, was common in Western Europe before going extinct about 40, 000 years ago. There's evidence that Neandertals ate them and…...
Earth Notes: Zuni Turtle
5+ hour, 30+ min ago (286+ words) Imagine, 90 million years ago, swimming through a freshwater world in what is now western New Mexico. When your time came, you sank into soft mud like others of your kind, your body slowly buried under layers of earth. You had…...