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Baby T. rex bones found stashed in museum drawer: ‘Vanishingly rare’
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (540+ words) The T-rex might have grown into the biggest, most terrifying creature to ever roam the planet, but it started life no bigger than a house cat. British researchers claim they’ve identified the first-known fossils of baby tyrannosaurs, offering a rare…...
Spooky dinosaur mummies teach scientists what prehistoric creatures may have looked like
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (386+ words) NEW YORK — Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or natural human mummies that get accidentally preserved…...
Scientists discover Southeast Asia’s largest dinosaur in Thailand
2+ mon, 1+ hour ago (622+ words) Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. Researchers…...
Evidence of giant squid discovered — bodacious beast is bigger than a school bus with eyes the size of a large pizza
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (522+ words) It’s a colossal find. Australian scientists detected signs of a super-rare giant squid during a watershed study, marking the first time the species had been recorded in the area in a quarter century. They detailed their one-of-a-kind find in a…...
Smithsonian exhibit monkeys around with the scientific evidence on human origins
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (661+ words) The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting the Smithsonian from promoting woke ideology, as The Post exclusively reported. But American…...
Rare books swiped from NYC royalty miraculously found after 40 years
2+ mon, 3+ week 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…...
Researchers say monstrous shark ruled ancient seas before megalodon
7+ mon, 7+ hour 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…...
California pals smash 10,000-year-old mammoth tusk worth a fortune while roughhousing in Missouri museum
3+ mon, 4+ week 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…...
Paleontologist who worked on five ‘Jurassic Park’ movies quietly leaves Chapman University after visits to Epstein’s ranch
5+ mon, 2+ 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…...
Skull of ‘dinosaur from Hell’ discovered with sword jutting from its head
4+ mon, 3+ week 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…...