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Family finds megalodon tooth while shelling
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (56+ words) Valley News Live Family finds megalodon tooth while shelling More than 50 cats rescued from abandoned sailboat Woman found during death investigation was involved in property line dispute, deputies say RedHawks take game-one over Canaries 4-3 at Newman Outdoor Field Caught on…...
NATURE NOTES: 3 Billion Birds Gone: Understanding the Sixth Mass Extinction
58+ min ago (298+ words) The Facts Grasslands species are some of the birds that are disappearing most rapidly. Have you ever heard someone say that we are currently in a sixth mass extinction? A mass extinction occurs when the worldâs biodiversity declines at…...
Dino-SCORE! Watch our feature -
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (712+ words) The Land Unknown" - Tonight! MeTV Dino-SCORE! Watch our feature - "The Land Unknown" - Tonight! This land is your land this land is … dino’s land?! Commander Alan Roberts is just your average US Navy commander taking his small helicopter crew on an…...
Summer readers set record of Jurassic proportions
14+ hour, 58+ min ago (271+ words) goldmountaincanews.com Placer County readers spent the summer digging into books, completing activities and exploring the world of reading as part of the 2026 Jurassic Summer Reading Program: "Unearth a Story!" The annual program, which ran June 7 through Aug 8, attracted 3,102 readers…...
Fossil Bird from Fujian Links Long-Tailed Dinosaurs to Short-Tailed Modern Birds
8+ hour, 58+ min ago (284+ words) Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzes Zhengheornis buhui tail bones to trace early bird evolution 150 million years ago Most terrestrial dinosaurs are known to have had tails so long that they accounted for more than half of their body length. Theropod…...
The Strange and Wonderful Animals of the Permian Period
14+ hour, 7+ min ago (642+ words) Before the Great Dying, there was a lot of pretty great living going on, too. Here are some of the weirdest, most wonderful, and often-unappreciated animals from the Permian Period that we would like you to meet. To learn more…...
In a Norwegian cave in 2025, scientists found 75,000-year-old bones of polar bears, walruses, and bowhead whales — and the remains of a species of lemming now extinct in Europe that had never been found in Scandinavia before
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (918+ words) A 2025 PNAS study identified 46 vertebrate taxa in a northern Norwegian cave deposit, revealing a coastal Arctic community from roughly 85,000 to 71,000 years ago. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit A limestone cave near Kjøpsvik in…...
Meet the 11-year-old fossil hunter who opened his own museum at age 9
2+ day, 58+ min ago (210+ words) At the ripe old age of 9, Anderson Taylor opened his own museum to house the fossil collection he's been building since the age of three. Now, 11, Taylor was recently became the Guinness World Record holder for being the youngest male…...
Dinosaurs invade local library’s Back2School event
12+ hour, 3+ min ago (336+ words) Children gather in the Henry County Public Library to learn the physical characteristics of dinosaurs from Missy Feller during the Aug. 8 Back2School event. The Henry County Public Library hosted the its annual Back2School event on Aug. 8. Free school supplies, dinosaurs and free…...
Ask a Paleontologist | PBS
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (432+ words) To see a visual representation of Earth's time periods throughout geological history, check out the International Chronostratigraphic Chart from the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Unfortunately, yes – and I mean that in two different ways, depending on the meaning of “a…...