5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (298+ words) June 29 (UPI) -- For about 40 years, an ordinary-looking fossil sat in a drawer in the geology collection of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. Today, it's finally being recognized and described for what it is -- the first dinosaur fossil found in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (285+ words) Scientists have identified a 121-million-year-old fossil as a new prehistoric bird species. A recent study described the extinct bird as about the size of a robin, with tail feathers twice the length of its body. The bird, Plumadraco bankoorum, was…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (572+ words) April 23 (UPI) -- In celebration of Thursday's World Book Day, we're looking back at some of the most astonishing tales of overdue library books that were returned more than 100 years late. Thursday marks World Book Day, a celebration of literacy and…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (554+ words) Dec. 16 (UPI) -- More than 16, 600 footprints left by carnivorous dinosaurs of different sizes that walked, ran and even swam about 66 million years ago have been identified at the Carreras Pampa site inside Torotoro National Park in central Bolivia, making the country…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (217+ words) March 4 (UPI) -- A paleontologist who was a consultant on the Jurassic Park movies is no longer with Chapman University Wednesday after emails he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein were released. Jack Horner, formerly a lecturer at Chapman University in Orange, Calif....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (209+ words) March 4 (UPI) -- Workers at a library in England got a "huge surprise" when a pair of books that were 50 years overdue turned up at a thrift store about 60 miles away. The Leeds City Council said in a news release that…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (209+ words) March 4 (UPI) -- Workers at a library in England got a "huge surprise" when a pair of books that were 50 years overdue turned up at a thrift store about 60 miles away. The Leeds City Council said in a news release that…...

10+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (338+ words) Aug. 29 (UPI) -- An interdisciplinary team of specialists from Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council, or CONICET, discovered most of the skeleton -- including the skull and jaws -- of a large hypercarnivorous crocodile that lived in southern Argentina about 70 million years…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (270+ words) Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Prehistoric fossils have led to the discovery of an ancient whale species off the coast of Australia. Scientists said the species, Janjucetus dullardi, is one of the earliest cousins of modern whales but was not an ocean giant,…...