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2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (430+ words) A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below making up northeastern Thailand's "dinosaur rush". Researchers have found a trove of dinosaur fossils across the region, which holds the…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1186+ words) A 55-metre specimen stranded on a Scottish beach in 1864 made the bootlace worm a contender for the longest animal on Earth. In 2018, Swedish researchers found its mucus contains a peptide neurotoxin that paralyses crabs and kills cockroaches, while leaving mammalian…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (746+ words) "Even though early colonists collected biological material from their former colonies, we didn't expect to see such high numbers in recent decades." A new study put numbers to a longstanding imbalance in science: Many of the mammals discovered in poorer…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (692+ words) Six hundred and fifty million years ago, during the Precambrian era, Saint John was a much different place. First off, no people, animals or trees of any kind. Second it was much farther south, below the equator. But there was…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (560+ words) Scientists rediscover a ‘ghost’ green mamba hidden in a Polish museum for decades after its 1885 discover The Times of India...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (580+ words) The newest member of the Vandal family is an ancient recluse who may inspire fear among people and prey. Research students from the University of Idaho identified a new species of spider that exclusively resides in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (287+ words) A mysterious object pulled from the bottom of a Lake Country beach has some experts scratching their heads. Clayton Brown tells Castanet he was enjoying a day at the beach with his family, swimming and doing some underwater exploring at…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (341+ words) A Pennsylvania family found a tooth from a megalodon, a prehistoric shark, in Sea Isle City this month, but how it got there remains a mystery. Above, megalodon teeth at the 2025 Sharks Tooth Festival in Florida. While finding a megalodon…...