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UM celebrates 100 years of paleontology with exhibit
16+ hour, 58+ min ago (17+ words) detroitnews.com UM celebrates 100 years of paleontology with exhibit...
Alabama Fossil Fest dives into Alabama’s prehistoric past
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (358+ words) Home » Alabama Fossil Fest dives into Alabama’s prehistoric past TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama’s prehistoric past comes to life as fossil sharks, ancient sea creatures and hands-on discoveries take center stage at Alabama Fossil Fest. The free event will be held Sept....
Public library invites adults to ‘Fall into Stories’
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (104+ words) The News-Enterprise Fall is just around the corner, and the Hardin County Public Library is inviting local adults to cozy up with a good book â or audiobook â as part of its Autumn Reading Challenge.The Hardin…...
Michigan museum marks 100 years of fossil history
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (373+ words) The University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology is celebrating 100 years with a historic look at the museum's contributions to the field of paleontology in Michigan and around the world. Matt Friedman, the director and curator of the paleontology museum, said…...
Ancient DNA Rewrites Story of Enigmatic ‘American Cheetah’ | Sci.News
10+ hour, 25+ min ago (410+ words) For several decades, paleontologists have described Miracinonyx trumani -- an extinct species of cheetah-like felid that roamed the North American prairies and steppe terrains more than 13,000 years ago -- as North America’s answer to the African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)....
Extinct American Cheetah Misidentified, Not Cheetah
17+ hour, 13+ min ago (282+ words) "It's very hard to imagine a prehistoric species we've never seen without comparing it to something we know," says Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, the paper's first author from the University of California, Santa Cruz. "But this approach can limit our understanding of…...
Ancient American cheetahs were not exactly cheetah-like
17+ hour, 17+ min ago (146+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 11:00 AM EDT “It’s really surprising and exciting to identify another predator present in Beringia,” Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), said in a statement. Berinigia is the ancient stretch of land…...
Scientists Unearthed a 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Cat Mummy With Its Whiskers and Claws Still Intact
16+ hour, 15+ min ago (784+ words) Frozen for 36,000 years, a saber-toothed cub still has whiskers, claws and features fossils never revealed. Dark brown fur still covers the head and front of a saber-toothed cat cub that died tens of thousands of years ago. Two rows of…...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1023+ words) A remarkably complete armored fish fossil from Brazil survived near a massive asteroid crater, revealing an unexpected link to ancient Europe. Near the end of the Permian, an asteroid hit central Brazil and folded the rock layers around the crater…...
Early mammals weren’t all loners, as scientists thought – some already lived in pairs alongside the dinosaurs
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (740+ words) These early mammals looked like shrews do today. They were small and had a long body, eyes typical for nocturnal mammals and little spiky teeth for eating insects. But they were not shrews. They were the ancestors of all the…...