2+ hour, 55+ min ago   (165+ words) PHOTOS: It's dino-mite at the Discovery Center themercury.com The Flint Hills Discovery Center exhibit “Roar and Explore” remains open through Sept. 6. It features lifelike animatronic dinosaurs, hands-on discovery stations and immersive play-based learning. Jasper Hefley of Manhattan spent…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (950+ words) The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the dinosaurs. The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out, say American scientists. They…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (986+ words) Fossil baby embolomere, showing that young embolomeres did not undergo a full amphibian-like metamorphosis. (Arjan Mann via SWNS) Fossilized babies of ancient crocodile-like predators have led to a "monumental" change in understanding of how animals first adapted to life on…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (302+ words) Amateur fossil hunter Heather Salt holding the world's oldest crocodile fossil. (Lyme Regis Museum via SWNS) The world's oldest crocodile fossil has been found during a walk on the Jurassic Coast. Amateur fossil hunter Heather Salt initially mistook the find…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (445+ words) Eric Cornell, middle, receives a plaque from K-State College of Arts and Sciences dean Chris Culbertson, left, and Chester Peterson Jr., right, before Cornell’s lecture Tuesday in Cardwell Hall. Cornell spoke as part of the Peterson Public Lecture Series, which…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (181+ words) themercury.com CT scan view of the tip of bluntnose six-gill shark (or cow shark) tooth (blue) found embedded in the extinct right whale skull. Scale bar = 1 mm). (Olivier Lambert via SWNS) Scientists find shark teeth in ancient whale skulls Scientists…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (669+ words) A painted reconstruction of a bluntnose six-gill shark (or cow shark) scavenging on a tiny extinct right whale carcass during the Early Pliocene of the southern North Sea. A pod of an extinct whale related to today's belugas swimming in…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (425+ words) An artist's interpretation of a juvenile Doolysaurus huhmini. It is depicted alongside birds and other dinosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous in what is now South Korea. (Jun Seong Yi / SWNS) A newly discovered baby dinosaur is so cute it…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (744+ words) The study suggests that – unlike modern birds – the now extinct reptiles may have used the sun’s warmth to help hatch eggs. Scientists in Taiwan examined the brooding behavior and hatching patterns of bird-like but flightless oviraptors. The research team also…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (459+ words) Tiny fossill of purgatorius upper molar from Corral Bluffs in Denver. (Dr. Stephen Chester via SWNS) A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including…...