2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (264+ words) Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. , has announced the return of 17 rare books to the heirs of John Hay and Betsey Cushing Whitney. The books, which were stolen from the couple's Long Island home in the 1980s, include works by John…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (381+ words) A tooth in the skull of a dinosaur found in Montana is a sign of death by Tyrannosaurus rex. A rare fossil in the collection of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the subject of new research…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (462+ words) A team of archaeologists and scientists have successfully dated a cache of animal hide clothing to the Late Pleistocene era, making it the oldest known sewn clothing in the world. A team of 13 archaeologists and scientists from universities in Oregon…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (212+ words) By Leigh Anne Miller The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has added a new, rare fossil to its collection: a dome-shaped skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, a type of dinosaur that lived about 67 million years ago. The fossil was donated…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (486+ words) A team of Australian researchers have posited that Little Foot represents a new species of Australopithecus As reported by the Guardian on December 14, one of the world's most famous hominin fossils may be a previously unidentified species of human ancestor....

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (275+ words) This is the first time a Caenagnathid Oviraptorosaur has been offered at auction. A well-preserved Caenagnathid dinosaur, affectionately known as Spike, is expected to headline Christie's inaugural "Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time" auction in London on December 11. At 68 million years…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago  (292+ words) The Denver Museum of Nature & Science announced last week that it discovered a 67. 5 million year old dinosaur fossil under its parking lot. The partial-bone fossil, idenified as a Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) ornithischian dinosaur bone, was found 763 feet below the surface....