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Ariyalur school turns students into young fossil hunters
6+ hour, 19+ min ago (317+ words) The Times of India Trichy: A government school in Ariyalur is turning its students into young fossil hunters, taking them to fossil-rich sites every weekend to explore the districtâs prehistoric past.Students of Ayanathur Government High School have so…...
Dinosaurs evolved very odd and unique food digestion strategies
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (863+ words) Picture a Triceratops relative, small and beaked, gulping down a mouthful of pebbles like a bird at a gravel pit. It wasn’t an accident. Plenty of dinosaurs did this deliberately, letting the stones sit in their gut for months or…...
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument | National Monument, Oregon, USA | Britannica
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (397+ words) John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Encyclopedia Britannica Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, series of rock formations in north-central…...
YESTERYEAR: Skull found in Skeleton Cave 100 years ago that of early wolf
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (1632+ words) Published 9:00 am Saturday, August 8, 2026 That the large skull recently found in the Skeleton Cave, 12 miles southeast of Bend, is that of a huge wolf, ancestor to the present-day timber wolf and the coyote, was made known here this morning when…...
Theophilus (fragmentum Vindobonense n. 1, f. 45r)
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (27+ words) The following fragment is transmitted in the sole known principal witness of the anonymous, pseudo-Platonic dialogue Theophilus, preserved in the …...
One of UK’s best fossil collections sold overseas in ‘loss to the nation’
4+ hour, 18+ min ago (1459+ words) Exclusive: Lack of funds left British museums unable pay eight-figure sum for collection, which went to Abu Dhabi institution One of the most important collections of UK Jurassic fossils ever compiled has been sold to a museum in Abu Dhabi,…...
Scientists Opened A Museum Drawer And Found A Lost Ice Age Frog Hidden In Plain Sight For Thousands Of Years
11+ hour, 9+ min ago (607+ words) Scientists returned to an old fossil collection expecting to study familiar remains, but one overlooked frog specimen revealed something completely unexpected. A fossil dug up at California’s La Brea Tar Pits in the 1950s has finally revealed its secret: it belongs…...
The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (616+ words) Some 50,000 years ago, modern humans wandered into Ice Age Europe. The continent was new to us Homo sapiens, but not for beings of our general kind. Neanderthals and their ancestors had been living among Eurasia’s glaciers for ages, and in…...
They Found Bite Marks on The Bones. The Victims Were Adults and Children.
7+ hour, 11+ min ago (34+ words) A cave in Spain just forced anthropologists to rewrite what they thought they knew about our closest relatives. I’ve read a …...
New discovery dispels the myth that the extinct dodo bird was stupid
11+ hour, 34+ min ago (16+ words) Coast to Coast AM...