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How The World’s Most Famous Dinosaur Went From A Legal Battle To McDonald’s
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (757+ words) Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most famous fossils ever discovered. But few people know about the bizarre legal battle that followed the discovery of the dinosaur. In August 1990, a fossil collector named Sue Hendrickson was working with…...
‘One In A Million’: Scientists Stunned By 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature Fossil That Still Has Soft Tissue Intact
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (658+ words) University of OklahomaPaleontologists discovered intact soft tissue from a crinoid that lived 450 million years ago. In the prehistoric animal kingdom, before dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before any animals and plants occupied dry land, starfish-like creatures known as crinoids…...
The ‘T. Rex Of The Ocean’: Scientists Just Identified A Predator The Size Of A Bus That Ruled Earth’s Seas 80 Million Years Ago
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (642+ words) Alderon Games-Path of TitansA depiction of Tylosaurus Rex, the “T. rex of the ocean.” As most people know, Tyrannosaurus rex was perhaps the most fearsome dinosaur to walk the prehistoric Earth. But T. rex’s reign of terror was of course…...
Paleontologists In Thailand Just Revealed The Nagatitan, An 88-Foot Behemoth That’s The Largest Dinosaur Ever Found In Southeast Asia
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (752+ words) Sethapanichsakul et al., Scientific Reports (2026)An artist’s rendition of Nagatitan Chaiyaphumensis, a massive sauropod that lived 113 million years ago. In 2016, a man named Thanom Luangnan spotted some odd rocks on the shore of a pond in Thailand’s Chaiyaphum Province. Paleontologists…...
Scientists Just Identified A 60-Foot Octopus With Bone-Crushing Jaws That Ruled The Seas During The Cretaceous
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (503+ words) Stories have long been told about the Kraken, the fearsome giant sea monster of centuries-old myth that could wrap its tentacles around an entire ship and drown scores of sailors in the process. And while the Kraken may be make-believe,…...
‘It Was Just Bones All Over The Floor’: Dozens Of Ice Age Fossils Found Inside A Cave In Texas
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (725+ words) John MorettiJohn Moretti and John Young collected rare Ice Age fossils from Bender’s Cave between 2023 and 2024. When John Moretti first entered Bender’s Cave, located just north of San Antonio, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “There were fossils everywhere,…...
Paleontologists Just Discovered A Strange Salamander-Like Creature With A Sideways Jaw That Predated The Dinosaurs
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (478+ words) During an expedition to Brazil, a team of paleontologists unearthed a prehistoric fossilized jawbone from a riverbed. The bone was strange, oriented sideways to the point that paleontologists initially thought they’d found the remains of a deformed animal. But then…...
An Amateur Paleontologist In Missouri Just Pulled An Enormous Mammoth Bone Out Of A Lake
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (625+ words) Jason Howery/StoryfulPaleontologist Jason Howery with the mammoth bone he found in a Missouri lake. Today, Missouri consists largely of quiet rolling plains and thick leafy forests home to wildlife like deer and raccoons. But tens of thousands of years…...
‘It Blew All Of Our Minds’: A 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell Was Found By An 11-Year-Old In Wyoming
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (720+ words) Craig Thomas, BLM Rock Springs Field OfficeTouren Pope poses with the rock containing the fossilized turtle shell that he uncovered by chance in southwest Wyoming. In 2025, 11-year-old Touren Pope was rock hunting with his grandparents in southwest Wyoming when he…...
Massive Dinosaur Fossils Unearthed During Construction Of A Parking Lot At A National Monument In Utah
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (589+ words) National Park Service/ReBecca Hunt-FosterThe excavation of the dinosaur fossil, thought to belong to Diplodocus, that was carried out at Dinosaur National Monument. More than 100 years ago, paleontologists began flocking to Dinosaur National Monument on the border of Colorado and…...