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Rare chance to tour fossil-rich land east of Colorado Springs
3+ hour, 40+ min ago (395+ words) Rugged bluffs and a surprisingly green, forested part of Colorado Springs" eastern plains are known among researchers of natural and human history. Among the broader public, Corral Bluffs and Jimmy Camp Creek are lesser known." But people can get familiar…...
Behind the scenes at the Dinosaur Resource Center
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (919+ words) Cleaning and cataloging fossils is a tedious process taking hundreds'sometimes thousands'of man hours. Turtles and crocodilians are among Jett's favorite fossils. Kelly Sanford, pikes peak courier Jacob Jett behind the scenes at Triebold Paleontology. Daspletosaurus curated and assembled by Triebold…...
A "dinosaur tree" and its prehistoric journey to a Colorado greenhouse
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (955+ words) Back in September, Malinda Barberio received an email from someone claiming to have a Wollemi pine." No way, thought Barberio, the University of Colorado Boulder greenhouse manager. "Because I know what they are," she said." She knew the Wollemi pine…...
Two evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (650+ words) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the human evolutionary lineage that reshaped the pelvis and helped facilitate this defining…...
Bones of ancient child suggest humans could have interbred with Neanderthals earlier than thought
8+ mon, 20+ hour ago (800+ words) The child, described in a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal L'Anthropologie, was buried in a cave in Israel some 140, 000 years ago. Because no ancient DNA was extracted from the fossilized remains, it's impossible to confirm the child's origins,…...
Ethiopian fossil Lucy leaves for her first exhibition in Europe
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (510+ words) FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. Lucy's skeleton, which is 40% complete, left Ethiopia on Friday and will be displayed at…...
Scientists discover an ancient whale with a Pok'mon face and a predator bite
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (688+ words) In this illustration provided by Ruairidh Duncan a Janjucetus dullardi is depicted chasing a fish. Researchers this week officially named Janjucetus dullardi, a cartoonish creature with bulging eyes the size of tennis balls, in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean…...
This prehistoric whale had razor teeth, bulging eyes and a face only evolution could love
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (708+ words) In this illustration provided by Ruairidh Duncan a Janjucetus dullardi is depicted chasing a fish. Researchers this week officially named Janjucetus dullardi, a cartoonish creature with bulging eyes the size of tennis balls, in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean…...
'Nothing short of magical': Dinosaur fossil discovered deep below Colorado museum
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (786+ words) Left to right: James Hagadorn and Bob Raynolds examining a drilling core from the City Park core drilling in the parking lot at Denver Museum of Nature and Science." A rendering of the Cretaceous Period, about 67 million years ago. In…...
Arizona fossils reveal an ecosystem in flux early in the age of dinosaurs
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (737+ words) An artist's reconstruction of a landscape dating to 209 million years ago at the site of Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, based on fossils of plants and animals found preserved in a remote fossil bed, seen in this undated image…...