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For this Alabama Paleontologist, his work looks to the future
4+ hour, 24+ min ago (682+ words) I'm in a car with Jun Ebersol, a paleontologist based at the Mc Wane Science Center in Birmingham, and on a recent morning we made our way to South Alabama to look for fossils. "It's a really remarkable area down…...
Newly discovered dinosaur species was a fish-eater with a huge horn
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (586+ words) Rebecca Hersher | February 22, 2026 A newly discovered species of large dinosaur lived in marshy areas, hunted for fish and had an impressive horn protruding from its skull. It is the first time in over 100 years that scientists have discovered a new…...
A photographer discovers miles of dinosaur tracks near Italy's Winter Olympic venues
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (682+ words) Rachel Treisman | December 17, 2025 Have you ever watched the Olympics and thought "this would be better with a hint of dinosaurs?" Well, you're in luck. On Tuesday, Italian officials announced the discovery of thousands of dinosaur tracks on "nearly vertical dolomite…...
This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (989+ words) Aru Nair | December 4, 2025 Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost…...
This "magical" dinosaur specimen emerged from the ground like a polished jewel
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1523+ words) Ari Daniel | October 23, 2025 Once he got closer, Tsogtbaatar " who now works at North Carolina State University " knew exactly what it was. A dome-shaped skull. It turned out that Tsogtbaatar had just discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur, a unique group…...