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Paleontologists In Thailand Just Revealed The Nagatitan, An 88-Foot Behemoth That's The Largest Dinosaur Ever Found In Southeast Asia
3+ hour, 10+ min 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
3+ week, 3+ hour 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
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (725+ words) John Moretti John 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…...
Paleontologists Just Discovered A Strange Salamander-Like Creature With A Sideways Jaw That Predated The Dinosaurs
2+ mon, 3+ 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
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (625+ words) Jason Howery/Storyful Paleontologist 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…...
It Blew All Of Our Minds: A 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell Was Found By An 11-Year-Old In Wyoming
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (720+ words) Craig Thomas, BLM Rock Springs Field Office Touren 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…...
Massive Dinosaur Fossils Unearthed During Construction Of A Parking Lot At A National Monument In Utah
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (589+ words) National Park Service/Re Becca Hunt-Foster The 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…...
Researchers Just Discovered A New Prehistoric Sea Cow Species That Lived 21 Million Years Ago
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (744+ words) Alex Boersma An illustration of prehistoric sea cows. Today, it is known that dugongs, also known as sea cows, play an important role in their ocean ecosystems by consuming seagrass, digging up important nutrients, and reshaping the seafloor. These animals…...
An Amateur Fossil Hunter In Australia Has Discovered A Previously Unknown Insect Species
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (644+ words) A lifetime of amateur fossil hunting has led to the discovery of a new species of non-biting midge " a small type of fly " that lived roughly 151 million years ago. Robert Beattie, an 82-year-old retired teacher, has had a fascination with…...