58+ min ago  (197+ words) Katsuyama, Fukui Pref. , May 21 (Jiji Press)--A team of Japanese researchers has discovered traces of an asteroid collision in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido that may have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (391+ words) Tokyo, April 4 (Jiji Press)--Two elementary school sisters from Tokyo have discovered a rare cicada fossil dating back about 300, 000 years by breaking open a rock sold as a souvenir by a museum. The Middle Pleistocene fossil was found by Maho…...