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130-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Found In THIS Country. It Is Bigger Than A Human Body And Can Crush You In...
7+ hour, 3+ min ago (84+ words) A remote stretch of coastline on the Dampier Peninsula has emerged as one of the most important dinosaur fossil sites ever documented in Australia. Scientists studying the area have confirmed the presence of enormous dinosaur footprints, some measuring up to…...
Ancient life leaves wrinkled traces in an unexpected place
12+ hour, 52+ min ago (475+ words) Sometimes big discoveries begin with a moment of surprise. For Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, that moment came during a walk through Morocco's Dad's Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains....
Video: Immersive Cryptids Exhibit Unveiled at Ripley's Museum in Florida | News Radio 830 KHVH | Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
14+ hour, 3+ min ago (134+ words) Video: Immersive Cryptids Exhibit Unveiled at Ripley's Museum in Florida'khvhradio.iheart.com Coast to Coast AM with George Noory Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained phenomena.Full Bio A Florida branch…...
Fossils Reveal Ancient Giant Kangaroos Could Hop — But Only in Short Bursts
15+ hour, 54+ min ago (486+ words) Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds that hopping may have been one of the few movement methods for these ancient animals. While modern-day kangaroos are…...
[Review] Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould | National Center for Science Education
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15+ hour, 59+ min ago (794+ words) [Review] Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould'National Center for Science Education [Review] Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould "will appeal to professionals…...
11-year-old discovers ancient turtle fossil on BLM land
16+ hour, 14+ min ago (310+ words) BLM paleontologist JP Cavigelli and Touren Pope carry the fossilized turtle shell off BLM-managed land after excavating the specimen. Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management'managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an extraordinary…...
550-pound Ice Age kangaroos could still hop
16+ hour, 23+ min ago (359+ words) Published Jan 22, 2026 4:30 PM EST Kangaroos have likely been hopping across the planet for much longer than experts previously believed. Not only that, but the ancestors of today's marsupials landed their leaps while growing much larger than their descendents. It's easy…...
Incredible paleontological discovery in Argentina: fossil tusk of an Ice Age mastodon found
16+ hour, 43+ min ago (572+ words) An incredible paleontological discovery recently made on the Argentine Coast surprises national science: it is a giant tusk fossil belonging to a Notiomastodon platensis. These creatures of the mastodon genus inhabited South America between 460,000 to 11,000 years ago, mainly in the…...
Parking Lot Construction Leads To First Fossil Excavation at Dinosaur National Monument Since 1924
16+ hour, 51+ min ago (188+ words) Outdoor News Focused On Skiing, National Parks & Wildlife UTAH " A recent parking lot construction project at Dinosaur National Monument revealed previously uncovered dinosaur fossils near the Quarry Exhibit Hall, marking the first fossil excavations at this location since 1924. This location…...
Prototaxites May Be Completely Unknown Branch of Complex Life | Sci.News
17+ hour, 44+ min ago (622+ words) Prototaxites was the largest organism on land 410 million years ago. Image credit: Matt Humpage. Prototaxites was the first giant organism to inhabit Earth's terrestrial surface, appearing during the Late Silurian and Devonian periods, roughly 420 to 370 million years ago. Known from…...