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…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (513+ words) Brigid Lynch was walking through a redwood forest in the San Mateo County hills when she noticed something unusual, half-submerged in the flowing water of a creek: a big smooth object that didn’t look like any of the other rocks....

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…...

1+ week, 20+ hour 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, 3+ day ago   (556+ words) It’s a warm August afternoon, and a gentle breeze rustles the firs and sugar maples at the Rochester Museum & Science Center's Cumming Nature Center in Naples. Judy Dobles, a retiree from Kodak's finance department and now volunteer at the Nature…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (285+ words) A large-scale shark fossil assemblage estimated to have formed approximately 100 million years ago has been discovered in the heart of Egypt's Western Desert. With tooth fossils from at least 7 shark species identified, the find is being hailed as definitive evidence…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (22+ words) Phys.org This site can’t be reached phys.org refused to connect....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1302+ words) Andew Stowe holds a rare Thylacine tiger that sold at auction after being found at a car boot sale(Image: © SWNS) The 'one of a kind' discovery of the rare Thylacine mounted head, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, has…...

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,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (673+ words) Anderson Taylor, an 11-year-old from Cambridge, Illinois, just became the youngest male museum curator in the world. According to The Smithsonian, the Guinness World Record was officially awarded to him after he opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in his…...