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Model of small armored dinosaur goes on display at Museum of Northern Arizona
3+ hour, 58+ min ago (234+ words) FLAGSTAFF " A life-size skeletal model of Scutellosaurus, one of the earliest known armored dinosaurs, is now on display next to the Dilophosaurus model at the Museum of Northern Arizona. To help visitors compare the two ancient creatures, new interpretive panels…...
Scientists have found ancient DNA in 252 samples taken from the seafloor and have discovered that, 16,000 years ago, a lush and vibrant land existed beneath the North Sea
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (811+ words) Home - Environment - Scientists have found ancient DNA in 252 samples taken from the seafloor and have discovered that, 16,000 years ago, a lush and vibrant land existed beneath the North Sea If you picture the North Sea, you think of rough water,…...
Scientists have learnt to read ocean history from turtle shells
18+ hour, 58+ min ago (174+ words) Sea turtle shells are made up of hard plates called scutes that grow in layers throughout their lives. In effect, the shell "records" the life of the animal and the environment around it. Scientists examined the shells of 24 sea turtles…...
The longest animal in history that walked through Patagonia
2+ week, 2+ day ago (493+ words) Watch on the app Supporting up to 70 tons on four legs required extreme evolutionary adaptations, from pillar-like bones to a 90-kilogram heart. Although whales are heavier, titanosaurs represent the maximum theoretical limit of what Earth's gravity allows for a living…...
Brain of flying reptile’s ancestor rebuilt to find out how they took flight
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (749+ words) Paleontologist L'sie V. S. Damke holding an enlarged model of the brain of Venetoraptor gassenae. (Rodrigo Temp M'ller via SWNS) The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the first flying reptiles has been reconstructed in a bid to work out how they…...
The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (779+ words) We've always thought that Tyrannosaurus rex was an unchallenged apex predator during the dying days of the dinosaurs. But a fresh look at controversial fossils has prompted palaeontology's biggest-ever U-turn When you come for the king, you best not miss…...
IU biologist’s landmark research expands understanding of how evolution, natural selection works
3+ hour, 29+ min ago (315+ words) Published in the IU College of Arts + Sciences News on March 11, 2026. The landmark new study, led by researchers from Chile, the Netherlands and the United States and published the journal'Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, gathers scholarly evidence to refute this…...
66 Dinosaur Footprints Were Discovered at a School
4+ hour, 39+ min ago (466+ words) A single boulder at a regional school in central Queensland was hiding 66 fossilized footprints in plain sight. Researchers that 47 individual dinosaurs made marks on the boulder, which originally came from a nearby mine and was given to a local high…...
Museum of the Rockies to host Dinosaurs and MOR! Festival from March 27 to 29
4+ hour, 26+ min ago (17+ words) Museum of the Rockies to host Dinosaurs and MOR! Festival from March 27 to 29Montana State University...
How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins
14+ hour, 58+ min ago (1231+ words) Dyani Lewis is a freelance journalist in Melbourne, Australia. Illustration by Pawe" Patyk When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that's how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist,…...