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Watauga County Public Library celebrating library card sign-up month
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (377+ words) This September, the Watauga County Public Library invites the community to celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month and discover how a library card can hit all the right notes. According to the library, getting a card is free, easy and empowering....
Pompeii find reveals plants flourished before dinosaur extinction
1+ mon, 4+ 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…...
'Unearth a Story': Watauga County Public Library launches summer reading program
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (293+ words) The Watauga County Public Library is located at 140 Queen Street. BOONE — The Watauga County Public Library has launched its much-anticipated Summer Reading Program to ignite the imaginations of readers of all ages through the theme “Unearth a Story.” Children and…...
Ancient squirrel poop reveals ‘remarkable’ details about Arctic
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (174+ words) Watauga Democrat Researchers analyzed permafrost samples collected from ground squirrel burrows that span several glacial periods and can remain frozen and sealed for thousands of years. (Georgia Kirkos via SWNS) An ancient Arctic ground squirrel nest found in Lower Hunker…...
Ice Age woolly mammoth found likely butchered by hunters
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (95+ words) Recovery of the first left rib from the mammoth’s ribcage. (BLfD via SWNS) The mammoth’s tusk in the paleontological preparation laboratory of the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History. (K. Hagemann / SNSB via SWNS) View of the excavation site; the…...
New species of ancient Arctic mammals discovered in Alaska
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (803+ words) The shape of the tooth suggests that Camurodon borealis was likely a herbivore. (Shelley et al. via SWNS) Three newly discovered species reveal how ancient mammals survived extreme weather conditions in the Arctic millions of years ago. While the Arctic…...
Fossils reveal platypuses swam with dolphins 25 million years ago
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (752+ words) Artist's impression of the toothed platypus that lived 25 million years, probably with other other aquatic animals including ancient lungfish, flamingos and freshwater dolphins. (Gen Conway / Flinders University Palaeontology Lab via SWNS) Platypuses swam with dolphins 25 million years ago, reveals an…...
World’s oldest crocodile fossil discovered during walk on beach
4+ mon, 1+ 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…...
Brain of flying reptile’s ancestor rebuilt to find out how they took flight
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (749+ words) Paleontologist Lísie V. S. Damke holding an enlarged model of the brain of Venetoraptor gassenae. (Rodrigo Temp Müller via SWNS) The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the first flying reptiles has been reconstructed in a bid to work out…...
‘Treasure trove’ reveals animal diversity began earlier than thought
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (983+ words) Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). (Xiaodong Wang via SWNS) The discovery of a fossil "treasure trove" has pushed back the origins of animals at least four million years. The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a…...