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Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Mystery winner buys T-rex nicknamed ‘Gus’ for a record $50 million at auction
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (539+ words) July 14, 2026, 2:27 PM Sotheby’s said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed “Gus,” is now the most expensive set of dinosaur bones ever auctioned off, besting the almost $45 million price tag for a nearly complete stegosaurus sold by the same New York auction house…...
A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (343+ words) June 30, 2026, 8:27 PM The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven’t yet identified the species it belongs to. It was discovered in 1985 during an expedition to Antarctica’s James Ross Island and collected by…...
Scientists say the world’s oldest octopus fossil isn’t an octopus after all
5+ mon, 2+ day ago (505+ words) April 9, 2026, 3:32 AM Newly published research concludes that fossilized remains listed by Guinness World Records as the earliest known octopus belong instead to a relative of a nautilus, a cephalopod with both tentacles and a shell. University of Reading zoologist Thomas…...
Triceratops skeleton ‘Trey’ to hit the auction block as dinosaur market soars
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (550+ words) March 2, 2026, 12:18 PM A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record…...
Flesh-eating beetles: The unsung heroes of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (341+ words) CLOSINGS & DELAYS: Public schools, libraries and the federal government in the DC area are closed Tuesday. See the full list January 27, 2026, 5:06 AM What if we told you that a small army of flesh-eating insects plays a crucial role in helping…...
Exploring Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s entire reserve specimen collection
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (368+ words) January 20, 2026, 4:55 AM If you’ve ever wondered where all the items in a Smithsonian museum that aren’t actively being displayed to the public end up, look no further than this massive, secure facility, sitting just outside D.C. in Suitland, Maryland....
Dinosaurs were thriving in North America before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, study suggests
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (421+ words) October 23, 2025, 2:04 PM Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid strike, but it’s…...
The nearly complete skull of a very thick-headed dinosaur is on display at the Smithsonian for the next week
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (367+ words) CHERRY BLOSSOM WATCH: Yoshino cherry trees reach final stage before peak bloom IRAN WAR UPDATE: President Trump says Iran wants 'to make a deal,' claims US envoys have been holding talks with an Iranian leader December 22, 2025, 6:03 PM For the next…...
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (342+ words) LOCAL ALERT: At-Large Council Member Kenyan McDuffie says he is resigning from the DC Council December 16, 2025, 1:07 PM The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five…...