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T. Rex Could Run Faster Than Usain Bolt, on Its Toes
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (336+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex may loom large in our collective imagination, but new research suggests the creature moved more like a supersize barnyard bird than a stomping movie monster.... T. Rex Could Run Faster Than Usain Bolt, on Its Toes Tyrannosaurus rex may…...
11-Year-Old's Fossil Find 'Blew All of Our Minds"
1+ week, 3+ day ago (402+ words) An 11-year-old's casual rock hunt in Wyoming ended with a big fossil find. While searching for quartz crystals and other rocks on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in southwest... 11-Year-Old's Fossil Find 'Blew All of Our Minds' An 11-year-old's…...
Ancient Wolf Pup's Meal Shows How Woolly Rhinos Vanished
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (421+ words) Scientists learned a lot about one of the last generations of woolly rhinocheros'from a chunk of meat swallowed by a wolf pup some 14,400 years ago. The mummified body of... Ancient Wolf Pup's Meal Shows How Woolly Rhinos Vanished Scientists learned…...
T. Rex Took 4 Decades to Reach Full Giant Size
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (414+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex, it turns out, may have taken its time becoming king. A new analysis of 17 tyrannosaur fossils suggests the giant predator lived longer than thought and never... T. Rex Took 4 Decades to Reach Full Giant Size Tyrannosaurus rex, it turns…...
New Dinosaur Species Leaves Experts 'Flabbergasted"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (449+ words) A newly described dinosaur seems to have come with its own built-in egg-grabber. In a study published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of... New Dinosaur Species Leaves Experts 'Flabbergasted' A newly described dinosaur seems…...
Butterfly Brains Could Reveal Secrets of Magnetic Navigation
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (417+ words) Monarch butterflies may hold the key to one of biology's biggest unsolved puzzles: how animals tap into Earth's magnetic field to find their way. In Texas, neurobiologist Robin Grob is performing microsurgery on monarchs, sliding hair-thin electrodes into their brains,…...
Thousand of Dino Footprints Found Near Olympic Venue
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (193+ words) A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio,…...
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (320+ words) The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has…...
'Everywhere You Look ... There Are Dinosaur Tracks"
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (350+ words) Scientists in Bolivia have uncovered a record-breaking 18,000 dinosaur footprints and swim tracks, setting a new global benchmark for a single tracksite. The discovery was made at the Carreras Pampa site in Torotoro National Park, an area that was once an…...
Fossils in Ancient Seabed Show Signs of Turtle Stampede
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (367+ words) Scientists say they may have discovered evidence of a prehistoric turtle stampede on a remote Italian cliff. The story begins in 2019, when rock climbers, venturing into a dangerous, off-limits section of limestone cliffs above the Adriatic near Ancona, Italy, found…...