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Rich People Are Spending a Fortune to Buy Museum Dinosaur Bones
4+ hour, 30+ min ago (413+ words) Examples of how the world is catering exclusively to the wealthy are everywhere you look. From trips to Disney to new cars, only the wealthy can afford anything anymore. Perhaps the most cartoonish example of the rich snatching up things…...
Nature’s Super Feather
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1364+ words) Vanya Gregor Rohwer slid open a drawer to display the rich pink spread wing of a roseate spoonbill, one of thousands of mounted wings at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. He pulled up a long flight feather to expose,…...
Dinosaur fossils unearthed during parking lot construction at Utah national park
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (306+ words) A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed'dinosaur fossils'at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit Hall after removing asphalt in mid-September, exposing'dinosaur-bearing sandstone, the…...
T. Rex Took Way Longer Than We Thought to Get Gigantic
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (384+ words) According to a new study published in PeerJ, the Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest land predator to ever live, may have needed 35 to 40 years to reach its full, gigantic size. That's significantly longer than scientists previously thought. A team of researchers…...
A Wolf Pup’s Last Meal Changed What We Know About Woolly Rhino Extinction
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (402+ words) A frozen wolf pup that died more than 14,000 years ago has become an unlikely archivist of extinction. Inside its stomach, scientists found preserved flesh from a woolly rhino, and that grisly detail has now helped answer a long-running question about…...
Ancient Bees Made Nests in the Bones of Dead Rodents, Study Finds
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (447+ words) More than 5,000 years ago, bees in the Caribbean nested inside dead animals. They built their brood chambers in the hollow teeth and vertebrae of rodents buried in a cave. According to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science,…...
An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1214+ words) At the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, N.Y., visitors wander through extinct ecosystems that start at the dawn of complex life on Earth and then run to the steppes of ice age mastodons. But the museum now faces a battle…...
An Enormous Shark Ruled the Seas Before the Megalodon, Fossils Reveal
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (366+ words) Tens of millions of years before the megalodon, a massive shark was running the oceans. According to new research, a previously overlooked set of fossils found near Darwin, Australia, belonged to the earliest known mega-predatory shark in the modern shark…...
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (604+ words) The finding in Stelvio National Park, near the Swiss border, that was unveiled Tuesday consists of thousands of fossilized footprints more than 200 million years old. The tracks, some of them stretching for hundreds of yards, are so well preserved that…...
When the Bones Were Good, These Bees Buried Their Babies
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (597+ words) In a cave thousands of years ago, giant owls scarfed down the spoils from their hunts. With eyes that were apparently bigger than their stomachs, the owls regurgitated bone-rich pellets onto the cave floor. According to Lazaro Vi'ola L'pez, a…...