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Construction reveals first fossils found at Dinosaur National Monument in 100 years
6+ hour, 18+ min ago (349+ words) For the first time in over a century, fossil excavations took place at Dinosaur National Monument on the border of Colorado and Utah, where bones were discovered during parking lot construction near the park's famed Quarry Exhibit Hall." The fossils…...
Dinosaur exhibition in Aira City draws 11,580 visitors, closes successfully
8+ hour, 12+ min ago (181+ words) image:Children participate in a hands-on workshop at the "Wake-Waku Aira Dinosaur Exhibition, creating fossil replicas by pressing softened resin clay into molds based on ammonite fossils dating back approximately 100 million years. The interactive program allowed young visitors to experience…...
This Lizard Did Something So Crazy Scientists Think It Is Evolving Before Our Eyes
8+ hour, 38+ min ago (15+ words) This Lizard Did Something So Crazy Scientists Think It Is Evolving Before Our Eyes'AOL.com...
Discovery of kākāpō ancestor fossil in Waitomo cave ‘breaks new ground’ in NZ’s ancient history
8+ hour, 50+ min ago (18+ words) Discovery of k'k'p" ancestor fossil in Waitomo cave "breaks new ground" in NZ"s ancient history'Stuff...
Scientists launch AI app to help ID dinosaur footprints | The Guardian - newspaper - Read this story on Magzter.com
9+ hour, 34+ min ago (392+ words) Experts have created an app that uses artificial intelligence to identify dinosaurs from the footprints left behind tens of millions of years ago. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Brusatte and colleagues report how previous AI…...
Considered extinct for 66 million years, the coelacanth was found alive in the depths of the ocean, maintaining an almost intact anatomy since the Age of Dinosaurs and becoming the largest "living fossil" ever discovered by science.
9+ hour, 52+ min ago (933+ words) What seemed impossible has turned out to be real: An animal thought to be extinct for tens of millions of years was still alive, hidden in the depths of the ocean. The coelacanth belongs to the genus Latimeria, with two…...
Scientists launch AI DinoTracker app that identifies dinosaur footprints
10+ hour, 2+ min ago (529+ words) Researchers say artificial intelligence system matches human expert classification about 90% of the time Experts have created an app that uses artificial intelligence to identify dinosaurs from the footprints left behind after they stomped across the land tens of millions of…...
Oldest Ancestor of Modern Sea Turtles Was — A Sea Turtle
11+ hour, 19+ min ago (642+ words) Here are new findings about a group of undersea stars: sea turtles. There are seven species of sea turtles in the world today, all beautifully designed and, sadly, all endangered. Consider first, appropriately, the enigma of origins. Do we see…...
First known lichen in the fossil record helped structure terrestrial ecosystems
12+ hour, 34+ min ago (266+ words) Study confirms that the symbiosis between fungi and algae that dissolves rocks and was widely distributed across Earth 410 million years ago helped form the first soils. The study was'published'in the journal'Science Advances'as a cover story by researchers from 19 institutions, including…...
The Long-Horned Isopod: One of Britain’s Strangest Marine Macro Species
14+ hour, 2+ min ago (377+ words) Lawson Wood gets his macro groove on to focus on the weird-and-wonderful long-horned isopod. The long-horned isopod (Astacilla longicornis) is just one of several dozen similar species in the Astacilla family found worldwide. This species in particular is commonly found…...