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Pike County Public Library continues "Unearth a Story" events
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (167+ words) Families gathered at the Pike County Public Library on June 23 to participate in dinosaur exploration stations brought by the Cincinnati Museum Center. The Cincinnati Museum Center brought dinosaur exploration stations to the Pike County Public Library on June 23, where families…...
Newly identified long-necked dino weighed same as 9 elephants
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (878+ words) Artistic illustration of the Nagatitan. (Patchanop Boonsai via SWNS) A newly identified giant long-necked dinosaur weighed the same as nine adult elephants and was as long as three city buses, according to new research. Bones found at the edge of…...
Fossils reveal platypuses swam with dolphins 25 million years ago
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (752+ words) Artist's impression of the toothed platypus that lived 25 million years, probably with other other aquatic animals including ancient lungfish, flamingos and freshwater dolphins. (Gen Conway / Flinders University Palaeontology Lab via SWNS) Platypuses swam with dolphins 25 million years ago, reveals an…...
Brain of flying reptile's ancestor rebuilt to find out how they took flight
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (749+ words) Paleontologist L'sie V. S. Damke holding an enlarged model of the brain of Venetoraptor gassenae. (Rodrigo Temp M'ller via SWNS) The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the first flying reptiles has been reconstructed in a bid to work out how they…...