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Barnum Brown: Father of Dinosaur Hunting
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (377+ words) In this installment of "Profiles in History," we meet a man with a nose for fossils who becomes one of history"s greatest dinosaur hunters. Barnum Brown: Father of Dinosaur Hunting Barnum Brown (18731963) found himself holding tightly to a wooden…...
230 Million Year Old Footprint Rewrites Dinosaur History in Australia
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (100+ words) The fossilised footprint was discovered by a Brisbane teenager in 1958 and is believed to have been made by a sauropodomorph. 230 Million Year Old Footprint Rewrites Dinosaur History in Australia When a Brisbane teenager went fossicking for plant fossils in a…...
Ontario Researchers Solve Nearly 50-Year-Old Mystery of Toronto’s ‘Subway Deer’ Fossil
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (112+ words) Ontario Researchers Solve Nearly 50-Year-Old Mystery of Toronto's "Subway Deer' Fossil Researchers have solved the nearly 50-year-old mystery of Toronto's "Subway Deer," a fossil that was discovered in the 1970s during construction of the city's subway. A partnership between Trent University,…...
‘Chasing North American Monsters’: Beasts and Bogeymen in the Spotlight
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (110+ words) Jason Offutt offers a jolly parade of creatures from cryptozoology, folklore, and paranormal legend. "Chasing North American Monsters: Beasts and Bogeymen in the Spotlight However, many people believe monsters are not figments of the imagination. They maintain that monsters move…...
Scientists Find World’s First ‘Club-Tailed’ Ankylosaurid Dinosaur Footprints in BC Riverbed
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (448+ words) Footprints of the iconic armour-plated dinosaur that roamed on all fours known as nodosaurid ankylosaurs, which lived from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous periods, are scattered throughout the area near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.but researches have now discovered new prints…...
BC Researchers Confirm Footprints of Three-Toed Dinosaur With Club-Like Tail
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (781+ words) Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the…...