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Museo del Gale'n is offering free guided tours this May
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Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (268+ words) SAO PAULO - Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in Spain, reinforcing knowledge that land routes once connected parts of South America, Africa and Europe about 120 million years ago. Named…...
'Exquisite' fossil of one of the smallest dinosaurs found in Argentina
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (724+ 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…...
New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (555+ words) WASHINGTON - Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying which dinosaur…...
Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (707+ words) Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2. 65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known member of the genus Homo…...
Ancient proteins found in fossils up to 24 million years old
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (572+ words) WASHINGTON -Scientists in recent years have made progress in findingancient DNA infossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But theoldest DNAobtained so far dates back about two million years. Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery, also offer valuable information…...