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Geologists Searching for Copper in China Drilled 1,500 Feet Underground and Found a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead
1+ day, 12+ 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…...
Thailand's 'Jurassic Park' shines light on dinosaur evolution
4+ day, 15+ 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…...
The bootlace worm, a ribbon of black slime found tangled on North Sea beaches, can stretch to more than 55 metres (longer than a blue whale), making it arguably the longest animal on Earth, and its skin secretes a neurotoxin that killed cockroaches and crabs after laboratory injection
4+ day, 17+ 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…...
Study finds 60% of new species specimen discovered in Global South are archived in wealthy nations
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (724+ words) A new study put numbers to a longstanding imbalance in science: Many of the mammals discovered in poorer countries are still being physically archived in richer ones. The official record of biodiversity helps determine who has access to knowledge, research…...
Meet Pando: The ancient???Trembling Giant??? that may be the largest living thing on Earth
1+ week, 3+ day ago (653+ words) Deep in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, what appears to be an ordinary aspen grove is actually a single enormous organism. Known as Pando, the sprawling colony of quaking aspens is connected by one underground root system and is widely regarded…...
10 Million Years Ago, This 23-Foot Crocodile Ruled Over a Swamp Full of Giants
3+ week, 21+ hour ago (203+ words) It was called Purussaurus, and it was a beast. In the wetlands of prehistoric Colombia, there was once a fearsome 4,000-pound, 23-foot-long relative of the crocodile with a bite that could probably chomp through a car. And it needed it,…...
Megalodon Teeth Aren't A Rare Find, But One This Big Really Is
3+ week, 5+ day ago (203+ words) We find crazy things wash up on the Jersey Shore all the time, especially after large storms. Like one time I found what I thought was an old pirate sword on the beach in Seaside. Turns out it was just…...
125-million-year-old fossil in China may reveal dinosaur spikes never seen before
4+ week, 6+ hour ago (395+ words) Scientists have made a surprising discovery in a 125-million-year-old dinosaur fossil unearthed in China, potentially revealing a previously unknown anatomical feature in these ancient animals. The fossil, a young plant-eater now named Haolong dongi, seems to have hollow spikes rising…...