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How a Black fossil digger became a superstar in the very white world of paleontology
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (1838+ words) Lazarus Kgasi entered the orbit of paleontology on a whim. After high school, he needed to support his family. He worked a couple of odd jobs before he was hired as a fossil digger. It would forever change his life....
The method for estimating a dinosaurs' age at death may be off, research suggests
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (59+ words) The method for estimating a dinosaurs' age at death may be off, research suggests'NPR The method for estimating a dinosaurs' age at death may be off, research suggests A growing body of research on dinosaurs' closest living relatives suggests the…...
The dinosaur secrets found in the archives of a natural history museum
4+ week, 1+ day ago (266+ words) What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out " by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum's basement, she talked to a paleobiologist,…...
A photographer discovers miles of dinosaur tracks near Italy's Winter Olympic venues
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (566+ words) One of the Alpine rock faces in northern Italy covered in dinosaur tracks, believed to be 210 million years old. Milan Natural History Museum hide caption Have you ever watched the Olympics and thought "this would be better with a hint…...
This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
2+ mon, 4+ hour ago (861+ words) Canadian Museum of Nature researchers Natalia Rybczynski (left), Danielle Fraser and Marisa Gilbert examine the bones of Epiaceratherium itjilik. Pierre Poirier/Canadian Museum of Nature hide caption Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species…...
How did these species survive mass extinction events? : Short Wave
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (243+ words) Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth's largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet's worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rose globally and oxygen in the…...
Scientists thought this fossil was a teen T. rex. Turns out it's a new tyrannosaur
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (1302+ words) In this illustration, a pack of Nanotyrannus attacks a juvenile T. rex. Scientists say a well-known fossil shows that there was more than one tyrannosaur species roaming the Earth. Anthony Hutchings/Friends of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences hide caption…...
What a fossil mystery tells us about parasites today : Short Wave
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (166+ words) Researchers found a fossil that suggests these parasitic marine worms, spionids, are around 100 million years older than previously known. Vasily Radashevsky hide caption Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest…...
This 'magical' dinosaur specimen emerged from the ground like a polished jewel
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (867+ words) It was a cloudy morning in southeast Mongolia. Paleontologist Chinzorig Tsogtbaatar and several colleagues set out by foot from their campsite to a rocky outcrop dating back some 110 million years to the early Cretaceous. Once he got closer, Tsogtbaatar " who…...
Earthworms may offer clues into magnetic navigation
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (354+ words) Scientists have known for decades that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It's less clear how they do it. A new study suggests earthworms may be a good way to figure it out.(This story first aired…...