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Two Bay Are men accused of breaking $200,000 mammoth tusk at Missouri museum
8+ hour, 30+ min ago (311+ words) Two Petaluma men are facing felony charges in Missouri after authorities say they damaged a woolly mammoth fossil at a museum attraction in the Ozarks. Brett Howard, 46, and Todd Azevedo, 48, were charged with felony property damage following the incident at…...
How a local ‘sea monster’ spawned a century of myth, mystery and scientific discovery
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (422+ words) In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore's Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine legs, a fish-like tail and a long neck stretched…...
Dinosaurs were thriving in North America before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, study suggests
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (420+ words) By CHRISTINA LARSON, Associated Press Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid…...