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A football-size creature may have been among the earliest plant-eating land animals
18+ min ago (15+ words) A football-size creature may have been among the earliest plant-eating land animals'AOL.com...
A football-size creature may have been among the earliest plant-eating land animals - CNN
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (18+ words) A football-size creature may have been among the earliest plant-eating land animals'CNN You can cancel anytime....
Meet Brian Hebert, discoverer of Hebert's tyrant digger and Nova Scotia fossil hunter
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (1101+ words) Football-sized critter, the 'Tyrannosaurus rex of microsaurs,' one of the earliest plant eaters discovered It hid nameless in stone for 307 million years. Then Brian Hebert stood quietly before the cliff in Point Aconi, Cape Breton. His eyes sought patterns they…...
When Did Human Ancestors First Walk Upright?
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (760+ words) All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history's biggest…...
This ancient South American kingdom ran on bird poop
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (405+ words) This ancient South American kingdom ran on bird poop Maize farmers in Peru's Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250 By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson The Isla Balletas is a guano-rich…...
Bird poop powered one of the Americas’ greatest ancient kingdoms, study finds
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (507+ words) Archaeological analysis of items from a South American kingdom reveals their prosperity was built on bird poop The prosperity of the Chincha Kingdom " a powerful ancient society on the coast of Peru " was largely thanks to their savvy use of…...
Dino-Sue T. Rex Replica Marked for Demolition at Disney's Animal Kingdom
5+ hour, 1+ min ago (303+ words) The replica of Sue the T. rex has apparently been marked for demolition. Dino-Sue was part of DinoLand, U.S.A., which closed permanently this month and will be replaced by Tropical Americas. Though Dino-Sue was still standing during our recent construction update, the…...
New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (424+ words) Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying which dinosaur left…...
No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?
6+ hour, 8+ min ago (703+ words) We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as "primitive" or "ancient" and use terms like "higher" and "lower" animals. This anthropocentric perspective was entrenched in 1866, when German scientist Ernst Haeckel drew one…...
Fossil vomit reveals what a proto-reptile ate in Thuringia 300 million years ago
6+ hour, 18+ min ago (688+ words) Predecessor of dinosaurs was an opportunistic feeder, and may not have been as dismayed by throwing up as we are Almost 300 million years ago, an animal threw up in Thuringia. Now analysis of the fossil ejecta from the Early Permian…...