1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (619+ words) A stack of rare books worth millions of dollars was finally returned to the heirs of New York City royalty Monday " decades after they were snatched by a mysterious bookworm, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said. The 17 historic works " valued…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (640+ words) In the age of dinosaurs " before whales, great whites or the bus-sized'megalodon" a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period. Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach near…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (299+ words) These Bay Area men have mammoth problems. Two friends from Petaluma have been arrested after smashing a woolly mammoth tusk while roughhousing at the Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum in Missouri. The tusk was around 10, 000 years old and said to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (401+ words) A Chapman University paleontologist who served as an advisor on the first five'Jurassic Park" movies has been let go by the college after emails showed his association with Jeffrey Epstein. In the most recent DOJ dump of files, a series…...

2+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (509+ words) It was a spine-tingling discovery. "This find was so sudden and amazing, it was really emotional for our team," said study co-author Paul Sereno, a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, Popular Science reported. The…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (480+ words) A group of researchers has estimated how long it took'Tyrannosaurus rex'to reach its full size " and the time period is significantly longer than scientists previously believed. The dinosaur is believed to have been Earth's largest land predator. It may have…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (287+ words) A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed'dinosaur fossils'at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit Hall after removing asphalt in mid-September, exposing'dinosaur-bearing sandstone, the…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (538+ words) Dinosaurs liked it rough " and the fossils they left behind prove it. Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they literally broke each other's bones, a new study in the journal…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (466+ words) Archaeologists recently uncovered'the remains of a young man who lived 6, 000 years ago " and survived a brutal encounter with a lion. A study published in the February 2026 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports focuses on a Late Eneolithic…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (517+ words) This is Ecuador's Wild Wild West. Never-before-seen video shows the dramatic moment that scientists encountered a new anaconda species while filming the National Geographic travel series "Pole to Pole with Will Smith." The footage was captured last year, but was…...