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How a megalodon tooth washed ashore in Sea Isle City is a 'human mystery,' paleontologist says
14+ hour, 53+ min ago (341+ words) A Pennsylvania family found a tooth from a megalodon, a prehistoric shark, in Sea Isle City this month, but how it got there remains a mystery. Above, megalodon teeth at the 2025 Sharks Tooth Festival in Florida. While finding a megalodon…...
Manchester Museum's iconic T-Rex Stan is moving for the first time over 20 years
2+ hour ago (947+ words) A new home for a big legend. Manchester Museum’s iconic T-Rex Stan is moving locations for the first time over 20 years. Stan, the famous Tyrannosaurus rex at the heart of Manchester Museum’s Fossils Gallery, is on the move from one…...
Weirdo Wednesday: J. Mascis Mumbles His Way Through "Classic" Dinosaur Jr. 120 Minutes Interview (1991)
6+ hour, 51+ min ago (188+ words) Glide Magazine Weirdo Wednesday: J. Mascis Mumbles His Way Through “Classic” Dinosaur Jr. 120 Minutes Interview (1991) Listening to J. Mascis in an interview can sometimes feel like an exercise in deciphering mumbles. But that’s part of the charm. The notoriously introverted Dinosaur…...
The State Parks With Fossil Beds You Can Walk Through
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (585+ words) Unlike most fossil sites, visitors don't simply view these fossils from a boardwalk or museum display. When water levels allow, they can walk directly across the exposed fossil bed, where countless corals, stromatoporoid sponges, brachiopods, bryozoans, gastropods, crinoids, and trilobites…...
Library caps off youth summer program with SpectrUM
7+ hour, 18+ min ago (568+ words) Arizona Duff with SpectrUM Discovery Summer of Science helps a young paleontologist prepare for making a fossil from a mold. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent) Reid Stenberg will be 2 next month and was a participant in making fossils last Wednesday on…...
Mid-Michigan dinosaur exhibit saved from extinction??? for a little longer
12+ hour, 22+ min ago (186+ words) Mid-Michigan dinosaur exhibit saved from extinction — for a little longer NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts Initially, the closing date was scheduled in early September.âWeâve been thrilled by the enthusiasm our guests have shown for Dinosaurs Around the World,…...
20 Things Hollywood Always Gets Wrong About Dinosaurs
15+ hour, 18+ min ago (986+ words) One of Hollywood's favorite tricks is putting dinosaurs from completely different periods into the same location. Tyrannosaurus rex might wander onto the same screen as Stegosaurus and Velociraptor, even though T. rex didn’t show up for another 150 million years after Stegosaurus…...
Genetic 'highways' laid down by a shared ancestor steer animal evolution, researchers find
14+ hour, 9+ min ago (337+ words) inkorr.com Genetic 'highways' laid down by a shared ancestor steer animal evolution, researchers find How animal evolution is shaped Rather than moving along random paths, animal evolution is channeled through a limited set of irreversible genetic "highways" that trace…...
55-Million-Year-Old Penguin Fossils Preserve Clues to a Warmer Antarctica
12+ hour, 10+ min ago (327+ words) A team of paleontologists studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island found that ancient bird bones can preserve chemical evidence of past climate change. Because the fossils are rare, the researchers needed a way to examine them without causing damage. They…...
Putting Humans in Context: Faculty Member Brings Biological Anthropology to Kosovo
13+ hour, 8+ min ago (722+ words) Newswise — Anthropology Professor and Department Chair Britney Kyle, Ph.D., spent her sabbatical sharing her expertise in examining human skeletons with students and faculty from the University of Prishtina in Kosovo, a country in Southeast Europe. During a five-week partnership…...