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400-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossils Rewrite the Story of Life on Land
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (771+ words) Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details. Scientists have uncovered new insights into the evolution of some of the earliest fish to inhabit Earth more than 400 million years ago. By…...
Remembering the Kansas Man Who Discovered T-Rex
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (615+ words) CARBONDALE, Kan. (KPR) - One hundred and fifty-three years ago this week, in the tiny town of Carbondale, Kansas, a baby was born who would one day change the world of paleontology. Today, Commentator Katie Keckeisen tells us about the man…...
New species of chicken-sized dinosaur in Spain is changing the history of evolution
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (1814+ words) This discovery helps fill a 70 million year gap in dinosaur evolution. New tiny dinosaur dropped! Our understanding of dinosaurs has changed over time. The "thunder lizards" are considered to be more related to birds than we previously thought. The brontosaurus…...
‘It Blew All Of Our Minds’: A 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell Was Found By An 11-Year-Old In Wyoming
5+ hour, 51+ min ago (720+ words) Craig Thomas, BLM Rock Springs Field OfficeTouren Pope poses with the rock containing the fossilized turtle shell that he uncovered by chance in southwest Wyoming. In 2025, 11-year-old Touren Pope was rock hunting with his grandparents in southwest Wyoming when he…...
11-year-old finds 48-million-year-old turtle fossil while rock hunting
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (278+ words) CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was exploring BLM public land in the Greater Green River Basin with…...
11-Year-Old Discovers 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Fossil on Public Land in Wyoming, US
7+ hour, 15+ min ago (579+ words) What began as a routine rockhounding trip quickly turned into a significant scientific find, highlighting both Wyoming's importance to paleontology and the critical role public lands play in preserving Earth's ancient history. Touren was exploring the area with his grandparents,…...
A 4-Foot Snake Killed by a Hiker Turned Out to Be Something Scientists Had Never Seen Before
7+ hour, 52+ min ago (741+ words) Production of this article included the use of AI. It was reviewed and edited by a team of content specialists. Deep in Bolivia's northern lowlands, a predator spent years hiding in plain sight. The four-foot-long snake had perfected the art…...
Ammonnews : Ancient humans were hunting and eating sharks 7,000 years ago
9+ hour, 37+ min ago (79+ words) New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator " sharks.The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Naf'n, an archaeological site in Oman that dates back to…...
12,000-Year-Old Clothing Made of Animal Hide Discovered in Ice Age Caves in Oregon
9+ hour, 52+ min ago (462+ words) A team of archaeologists and scientists have successfully dated a cache of animal hide clothing to the Late Pleistocene era, making it the oldest known sewn clothing in the world. A team of 13 archaeologists and scientists from universities in Oregon…...
Dino or whale? Basilosaurus takes over Birmingham—why you need to see this exhibit now
10+ hour, 24+ min ago (511+ words) Birmingham, this one's big! A 40-foot-long Basilosaurus'a mega prehistoric whale'now hangs in the lobby of McWane Science Center. This new skeleton isn't just massive, its story is tied to Alabama's ancient oceans, the rise of Birmingham and our state's scientific…...