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Scientists uncover dodo bird’s hidden sensory abilities
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (575+ words) Sunday August 09, 2026 New research into the extinct dodo bird has revealed previously unknown clues about its sensory abilities, suggesting that the species may have had a stronger sense of smell, greater sensitivity to touch and a more flexible pattern of…...
T-Rex Sue found in South Dakota in 1990
3+ hour, 56+ min ago (191+ words) Erwin Record These events helped to shape this week in history 12, 1990 ⢠Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.Aug 13, 1969 ⢠The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker-tape…...
Dinosaur Isle Museum marking 25 years with special events
4+ hour ago (331+ words) An Isle of Wight museum is marking 25 years of fossil discoveries, dinosaur displays, and prehistoric adventures. Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown will celebrate its milestone anniversary on Monday, August 10, with a day of family-friendly activities designed to bring the island’s…...
Idiosyncratic dinosaur 'museum' went extinct
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (1189+ words) Posted By: dweisman August 8, 2026 Always a bit of an oddity, and itself a colorful exhibition of an Escondido antique dealer’s lifelong hobby, the Roynon Museum celebrating all things dinosaur, went the way of the creatures celebrated within, that is to…...
The dodo bird had a secret sensory world scientists are only now discovering
7+ hour, 40+ min ago (138+ words) CT scans of the world’s rarest dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird may have had a stronger sense of smell, a highly sensitive beak, and a lifestyle that extended into dawn and dusk. The discoveries are helping overturn centuries-old myths…...
Ariyalur school turns students into young fossil hunters
13+ hour, 55+ 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
14+ hour, 42+ 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
3+ day, 3+ 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
15+ hour, 57+ 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)
11+ hour, 35+ 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 …...