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University of Calgary - UCalgary paleontologists capture public's imagination with dinosaur discoveries
6+ hour, 12+ min ago (239+ words) On the main floor of the Earth Sciences building at the University of Calgary, across from the Gallagher Library, sits an empty display case. Currently wrapped in brown paper adorned with claw marks, it promises that something big is coming....
Woolly rhinoceros was the wolf’s last meal | Polar Journal
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (190+ words) It was an extraordinary chain of circumstances that allowed paleontologists a unique glimpse into the past. About 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup fed on the meat of a woolly rhinoceros and died shortly afterward itself. Thanks to rapid preservation in…...
Dinosaur discovery stops construction at Utah park
8+ hour, 42+ min ago (533+ words) A parking lot construction project at Dinosaur National Monument turned into an unexpected fossil discovery " the first at the site in more than a century. Construction crews paused asphalt removal on Sept. 16 after they uncovered a piece of sandstone containing…...
“Nutcracker Man” ventured further and wider than first thought, new Ethiopian fossil discovery shows | Natural History Museum
10+ hour, 43+ min ago (414+ words) Nutcracker Man" ventured further and wider than first thought, new Ethiopian fossil discovery shows [21 January 2026, London UK] The discovery of a fossil in northern Ethiopia, attributed to the genus Paranthropus, has changed our understanding of this unusual branch of our…...
Dinosaur National Monument paleontologists uncover first new fossils since 1924
11+ hour, 35+ min ago (130+ words) Recent parking lot construction at Dinosaur National Monument has uncovered fossils of a long-necked dinosaur on the Utah-Colorado border. Park staff say the discovery near the Quarry Exhibit Hall'is the first fossil excavation there since 1924, when the original excavations at…...
Fossil Friday digs up fun, Waco history
11+ hour, 43+ min ago (600+ words) By Kaylee Hayes | Reporter In the Mayborn Museum's Hall of Natural History, brushes scrape and chisels tap as Baylor researchers carefully uncover fossils from the Waco Mammoth National Monument. Each Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., visitors to the museum can gather around…...
Fossil of dead-end branch of life which became extinct to go on display
12+ hour, 24+ min ago (630+ words) A fossil from a lifeform which once towered over the ancient landscape is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. Prototaxites, which grew to more than eight metres tall, belonged to an "entirely extinct evolutionary branch of…...
A 2.6-Million-Year-Old Jaw Uncovers a Missing Hominin From the Afar Region
13+ hour, 4+ min ago (465+ words) Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old'Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia's Afar region is reshaping scientists' understanding of early human evolution and competition with Homo. One branch of the human family tree had never shown up in one of its most studied landscapes. Despite…...
New 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus fossil reshapes understanding of early hominins
14+ hour, 22+ min ago (479+ words) A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than previously thought. Top: Multiple views of MLP-3000-1, the newly discovered Paranthropus…...
Evidence of ‘lightning-fast’ evolution found after dino-killing asteroid impact
14+ hour, 35+ min ago (380+ words) An artist's interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by the impact. The geometric form (bottom left) is a…...