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Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (648+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
Peterborough museum's prehistoric collection awarded new status
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (480+ words) Rare Bronze Age log boats are part of Peterborough museum's newly recognised collection A unique hoard of artefacts depicting prehistoric life has received one of the highest honours available to museums in England. The Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery's prehistoric…...
Scorpion fossil identified as the largest ever known
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (439+ words) An enormous scorpion fossil has been identified as the largest known to science. The discovery was made by experts from the University of Manchester and the Natural History Museum, who rare re-examining it 150 years after it first became part of…...
Dino at the Museum – Technician
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (9+ words) Dino at the Museum technicianonline.com Dino at the Museum...
A fossil pincer more than 159 millimetres long has been identified as a scorpion's, after a century in which the animal was most often filed among the crustaceans, and the scorpion reading was still being rejected in 2024
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (690+ words) Announcements from Manchester and the Natural History Museum call Praearcturus gigas the largest scorpion ever to exist, about a metre long. The revision they are announcing states no total body length for it, and no specimen preserves a sting. By…...
National blue plaque unveiled to palaeontologist and archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (714+ words) Discover a haven for wildlife and people in the heart of London. Journey beneath the waves and meet some of the fiercest marine reptiles that have ever lived. Our research themes focus our work so we can find solutions to…...
Fossil pioneer Dorothea Bate honoured with national blue — JournalArta Global
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (317+ words) A fossil hunter who helped reshape how scientists understand prehistoric life has been honoured with a national blue plaque at the Natural History Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire. Dorothea Bate, one of the first women employed by the museum, is being…...
Pioneering Welsh fossil hunter recognised 70 years after her death
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (504+ words) Carmarthenshire-born palaeontologist Dorothea Bate 'transformed our understanding of prehistoric animals' and was the first woman to work at the Natural History Museum(Image: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum) The inscription on the plaque says that the palaeontologist was…...
Blue plaque honour for pioneering fossil hunter | Western Mail - newspaper - Read this story on Magzter.com
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (393+ words) A FOSSIL hunter who was one of the first women to be employed by the Natural History Museum has been recognised with a national blue plaque. Dorothea Bate, who died in 1951 aged 72, “transformed our understanding of prehistoric animals and ancient…...
Scientists Just Found a Coin-Sized Footprint Preserved in Antarctica’s Ancient Soil
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (377+ words) Buried in volcanic mud on a remote island off Antarctica, scientists uncovered something no one expected to find on the frozen continent: a single, coin-sized footprint unlike anything ever recorded there. A research team has just discovered a single fossilized…...