15+ hour, 1+ min 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…...

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…...

1+ week, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ 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…...

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…...

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