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The day when dozens of sea turtles panicked and fled at full speed under the sea 79 million years ago: Italian climbers have just found their perfectly preserved footprints after an avalanche caused by a prehistoric earthquake
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (714+ words) Home - Science - The day when dozens of sea turtles panicked and fled at full speed under the sea 79 million years ago: Italian climbers have just found their perfectly preserved footprints after an avalanche caused by a prehistoric earthquake Rock climbers…...
Maine Student Says T. Rex Ran Like an 8-Ton Chicken
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (286+ words) Turns out, the Tyrannosaurus rex may not have stomped around like a Hollywood monster after all. According to the KJ, a21-year-old student at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor just helped flip the script on one of the…...
Pokémon Fossil Museum coming to Chicago this spring. How to buy tickets
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (249+ words) Poke'mon fans can soon celebrate 30 years of the franchise at the Chicago Field Museum's pop-up exhibition. Poke'mon Fossil Museum will only be available for a limited time, so here's what fans should know. The interactive experience will bring together the…...
MIT study finds Earth’s first animals were likely ancient sea sponges
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (814+ words) Researchers at MIT have uncovered new chemical clues in extremely old rocks that suggest some of the earliest animals on Earth were likely ancestors of modern sea sponges. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team…...
The Animal That Can Leap the Furthest – An Olympic-Level Jumper
7+ hour, 21+ min ago (206+ words) In the animal kingdom, extraordinary physical abilities have evolved through millions of years of adaptation to various environments and survival challenges. Among these remarkable capabilities, the power to leap vast distances stands as one of the most impressive athletic feats....
Cretaceous Amber Preserves 99-Million-Year-Old Ant Interactions With Mites and Spiders
7+ hour, 21+ min ago (613+ words) Cretaceous Amber Preserves 99-Million-Year-Old Ant Interactions With Mites and Spiders'ScienceBlog.com...
T-rex could BEAT Usain Bolt's 100m world record as scientists reveal shock truth about dinosaur's running 'stomp"
7+ hour, 27+ min ago (20+ words) T-rex could BEAT Usain Bolt's 100m world record as scientists reveal shock truth about dinosaur's running 'stomp'the-sun.com...
Paleoecologist to be featured in KWU's ‘Prairie Conversations’
8+ hour, 28+ min ago (149+ words) That conversation will take place from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Peters Science Hall 201 on the Kansas Wesleyan University campus. A professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,Badgleyhas degrees in Geology, Wildlife Ecology and…...
'Exquisite' fossil of one of the smallest dinosaurs found in Argentina
8+ hour, 32+ min ago (724+ words) WASHINGTON - In Argentina's Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape including fearsome meat-eater Giganotosaurus, at about eight tons, and immense long-necked plant-eater Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 tons. But this was no mere land of the giants, as a…...
Rarest amber up to 50 million years old with traces of an ancient insect found in Kaliningrad
9+ hour, 45+ min ago (237+ words) A unique sample of Baltic stone, which repeats the outlines of the larva of an ancient beetle, was discovered at the Kaliningrad Amber Combine (part of Rostec). The age of the find is from 30 to 50 million years, the company's press…...