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Dinosaur discovery by palaeontologists fundamentally alters scientific understanding of the notorious tyrannosaurus rex
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (590+ words) Iran democracy protesters clash with Met Police outside London embassy The findings challenge decades of assumptions about dinosaur biology A landmark investigation into Tyrannosaurus rex fossils has fundamentally altered scientific understanding of how long these apex predators took to mature....
Smithsonian Digitizes Pollen From 18000 Plant Species
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (583+ words) Smithsonian Digitizes Pollen From 18,000 Plant Species'National Museum of Natural History A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than18,000 plant species from the tropics. These images are being used to train a…...
The National Park Service just uncovered a long-necked dinosaur
5+ hour, 27+ min ago (414+ words) Park workers excavated 3,000 pounds of fossil and rock National Park Service employees may have just uncovered one of the longest dinosaurs on Earth. Crews working on construction at the Dinosaur National Monument's Utah parking lot last September stumbled upon the…...
Measuring approximately 13 meters in length, weighing over a ton, and possessing enough strength to overpower any animal in the tropical swamps, the Titanoboa made history as the largest, heaviest, and most terrifying snake ever to have crawled the Earth.
6+ hour, 45+ min ago (1251+ words) A Titanoboa It went down in history as the largest known snake of the Serpentes group, a fossil snake that lived in the Paleocene, between 66 and 56 million years ago, and whose existence was reconstructed from remains found in Cerrej'n coal…...
Rex will let you know when he's ready for attention
6+ hour, 58+ min ago (124+ words) Rex is our Hearts4Paws Pet of the Week! He's a cockapoo " probably 8-10 years old who still has a long life ahead! He has lots of energy and even gets the zoomies when he's excited. Rex would love to live in a…...
Fossil analysis changes what paleontologists know about how long T. rex took to grow full size
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (622+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists have long counted annual growth rings in fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex leg bones to calculate both their age at…...
Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators
7+ hour, 54+ min ago (330+ words) LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Jeffrey Martz is the curator of paleontology at The Museum at Texas Tech. "We actually have one of the most important collections in the world of fossils from the beginning of the age of dinosaurs," Martz said....
Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators of Texas
8+ hour, 2+ min ago (59+ words) Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators of Texas'KCBD Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators of Texas Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Lubbock McDonald's donates food to feed more than 300 people City of Lubbock…...
Meet The Snake That Refused To Lose Its Legs — A Herpetologist Explains
8+ hour, 24+ min ago (661+ words) If you thought that snakes were always slithering, limbless creatures, then you'd be mistaken; hundreds of millions of years ago, snakes crawled before they slithered. However, deep in the Patagonia badlands of Argentina, one fossil has been undoing decades of…...
Newly discovered dinosaur fossil from 150 million years ago excavated at Dinosaur National Monument
9+ hour, 41+ min ago (358+ words) Before they repaved paradise and put in a parking lot, they called the staff paleontologist. That's protocol for Dinosaur National Monument, the remote, high desert outpost in northwestern Colorado where the Yampa and Green rivers converge, and that's famous for…...