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Fossil Road Show coming back to town Saturday
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (203+ words) Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Roger Rakestraw holds baby mammoth tooth found near here. Calling all rockhounds: The Annual Fossil Road Show is this Saturday, June 13, from 10 a. m. - 2 p. m. at the Union County Heritage Museum in New Albany. Paleontologist George Phillips from the…...
Ice Age woolly mammoth found likely butchered by hunters
38+ min ago (686+ words) The mammoth's tusk at the excavation site in Taimering, Germany. (BLf D via SWNS) A recently discovered woolly mammoth was likely butchered by Ice Age hunters around 25, 000 years ago, according to new research. They even used one of the rib…...
Fossil yields secrets long thought to be beyond genetics
11+ hour, 40+ min ago (10+ words) Press Reader...
Monroe Free Library invites children and teens to "Dig Into the Past" during Summer Reading 2026
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (416+ words) Monroe Free Library is excited to announce its 2026 Summer Reading Program, "Dig into the Past," a six-week adventure through world and American history designed for children and teens ages 018. This year's program invites participants to become time travelers, exploring fascinating…...
Record numbers of octopi discovered in the UK
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (104+ words) Gamereactor UK Not many of us associate octopi with the United Kingdom, but the common or Mediterranean octopus is native to its coasts. Usually, though, they are so rarely seen around the waters of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland…...
Ancient Europeans Ate Some Pretty Gross Things, but The Ickiest One Was Probably by Accident
3+ hour, 47+ min ago (522+ words) An analysis of dental tartar containing traces of human diets dating back over 33, 000 years has revealed that ancient Europeans and many early Asian populations likely only ate insects by accident, perhaps as larvae in the carcasses of dead animals. Conversely,…...
'Unearth a Story' With Centre County Library's Summer Program
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (357+ words) Legislation Proposes Selling 9 Acres of State Prison Land Near Shiloh Road to Adjacent Commercial Property Owner Two More Businesses Lease Space in Former Bellefonte Rite Aid Building Who Were Penn State's Highest Paid Employees Last Year? New Filing Reveals Top…...
Stones 'N Bones Museum finalizes plans to donate collection to Lambton County
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (657+ words) The Stones N" Bones Museum"s collection of nature history artifacts is expected to move to space at the downtown Sarnia library. The Stones N" Bones Museum"s collection of 4, 650 fossils, dinosaur bones and other pieces of natural history are…...
A long-standing puzzle regarding early animal existence is resolved by tiny fossils.
9+ hour, 13+ min ago (1107+ words) A single fossil that was only a tenth of an inch across was at the heart of an ongoing dispute for years. No one was able to determine if it was an early animal colony, a type of seaweed, or…...
End-Cretaceous Plankton Survival Traits
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (510+ words) SFL Educational News Service The Core Concept: Following the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, select marine organisms survived the mass extinction due to specific biological advantages. A recent trait-based numerical model reveals that small body size and high tolerance to…...