4+ hour, 2+ min ago  (568+ words) New York: A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world’s largest and most complete specimens was sold for a record $50.1 million Tuesday to a mystery bidder. Sotheby’s said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed “Gus,” is now the most expensive…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (713+ words) Adelaide (Australia)- (The Conversation): Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil record from this time, which falls within the Cambrian period, contains a missing chapter....

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (460+ words) Hyderabad: With the lack of awareness about 250-million-year-old fossils among people threatening their survival, researchers urged the state government to build a dedicated fossil park to show fossils collected from 20 different locations in the state. Fossils are formed when an…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (723+ words) Washington: In Argentina's Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape including fearsome meat-eater Giganotosaurus, at about eight tons, and immense long-necked plant-eater Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 tons. But this was no mere land of the giants, as a…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (187+ words) The presence of nearby megalithic remains points to cultural continuity from the Stone Age through the Mesolithic to the Megalithic period, establishing Mulugu’s fossil land as a multi-period archaeological landscape. Hyderabad: Wood fossils believed to be around 160 years old have…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (313+ words) From Fossil To Fan Favourite: 
Stan The T. Rex Takes Over Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi 
Social Media Abu Dhabi: As the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi welcomes visitors, one of its star residents is already capturing global attention online....

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (320+ words) The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (194+ words) Hyderabad: After discovering a 230-million-year-old wood fossil in Bopparam of Mancherial district, the heritage department is set to look for dinosaur eggs in the area. The three-day exploration will shortly begin in Sompeta in the district. The exploration will be…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago  (366+ words) The international research team, which included CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), discovered that gibbons possess a highly rearranged genome structure, far more dynamic than that of humans, chimpanzees, or gorillas Hyderabad: Researchers have decoded the genome of gibbons,…...