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Summit Library's Summer Reading Program Features Dinosaurs
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (212+ words) Dinosaur fossils took over Summit Public Library on Wednesday, June 24, as part of the library's Children's Summer Reading Program, which runs through July 23. The traveling exhibit, called T-REXPLORERS: Walk The Earth, See What You'll Find, features authentic dinosaur fossils and…...
Earliest Americans Specialized in Megafauna Hunting from Alaska to South America
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (269+ words) A new and innovative scientific study on early native peoples of America has indicated that these early inhabitants were successful large game hunter-gatherers, and in fact most of their food consisted of the largest game available at any time across…...
Study Reveals 113-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Tissue Preservation
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (177+ words) Kliti Grice, John Curtin Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Western Australia Centre for Organic and Isotope Geochemistry at Curtin University, stated the findings open a new window into fossil formation. "This fossil is a true time capsule " not…...
Antarctica Dinosaur Fossil: First Dinosaur Fossil From Antarctica Revealed In Major Scientific Breakthrough | FOX RGV
2+ hour, 23+ min ago (147+ words) Rio Grande Valley Newsroom Fox Rio Grande Valley News Weather and Sports for the Rio Grande Valley The discovery ignites new curiosity into the conditions that allowed such massive, long-necked herbivores to thrive in what is today an ice-covered continent....
All Life on Earth Can Be Traced Back to One Common Ancestor | The Astounding Pop Mech Show | Episode 01
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (80+ words) Popular Mechanics All Life on Earth Can Be Traced Back to One Common Ancestor | The Astounding Pop Mech Show | Episode 01 Pop Mech Explains Space Concepts The Pop Mech Longevity Course Pop Mech Explains Precognition A Part of Hearst Digital Media…...
The surprisingly complex story of how mammals stand and move today - AOL
5+ hour, 36+ min ago (766+ words) In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall'literally. The way mammals stand and walk today, with limbs tucked neatly under the body, wasn't always the norm. Long…...
Dinosaur programs and more at the Sullivan libraries
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (458+ words) Kingsport Times News The Sullivan County Public Library has five locations to serve the community Summer reading is not just for kids You just have to have entered some reading minutes into Read Squared to be eligible to attend FOR…...
Research News | Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish | Evolution
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (30+ words) The London School of Economics and Political Science New research finds ecological factors, not social behaviour, explain brain size in cephalopods...
Pompeii find reveals plants flourished before dinosaur extinction
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (950+ words) The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the dinosaurs. The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out, say American scientists. They…...
Travel back in time with Dinoman at the Bellows Falls Opera House
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (187+ words) The Bellows Falls Opera House. BELLOWS FALLS " Get ready for a prehistoric adventure when Dinoman stomps into the Bellows Falls Opera House on Monday, July 6, at 6 p. m. Presented by the Rockingham Free Public Library, this interactive family program combines comedy, magic,…...