5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (418+ words) Things are getting prehistoric at The Exploration Place in Prince George. The city's museum and science centre has been taken over by ancient creatures as it hosts Dinosaurs of B. C. , a travelling exhibit from the Royal B. C. Museum. Front and centre in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (732+ words) Monstrous octopuses the size of modern whales prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and crunching them with powerful jaws, fossils from B. C. and Japan suggest. Like mythical, tentacled sea monsters such as the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (262+ words) Two long-lost watercolours from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book are to be auctioned after being discovered hanging in a London home. The pair were originally part of a set of 16 and their discovery increases the number of known surviving originals…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (367+ words) A town's library is celebrating its 100th anniversary with events showcasing how it serves its community through a mix of old and new technology. Gateshead Central Library is holding drop in events throughout the day including creative sessions, author events and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (838+ words) A newly discovered, football-sized creature that could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater " back before that was really a thing " may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found. Tyrannoroter heberti lived about 315 million years ago, during the late Carboniferous…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (655+ words) "I love lichens. I really do." Which is fortunate, as April Windle is currently peering down a magnifying lens on a muddy bank in the middle of a slightly damp New Forest. "I've been lucky enough to spend nearly a…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (510+ words) WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group of dinosaurs called sauropods that included the largest land…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (395+ words) A prehistoric visitor washed ashore on Hilton Head on Nov. 19. The fish, identified as a sturgeon, was first spotted by beach goers in front of the Islanders Beach Club. Shore Beach Services removed it and then turned it over to…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (408+ words) Dinosaur tracks from about 115 million years ago have been found in Texas The 15 footprints were discovered on private property by a volunteer who was helping clear debris after the recent July flooding The footprints measure approximately 18-20 inches in length and…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago  (492+ words) Our ancestors probably loved to eat potatoes, even though their teeth weren't cut out for the task. That's the finding of a new study co-authored by a University of Calgary professor, which has determined that early humans began to eat…...