12+ hour, 15+ min ago  (468+ words) A palaeontologist who worked as an adviser on several Jurassic Park films has left his role at Chapman University, weeks after emails linking him to Jeffrey Epstein were released. The 2012 emails show Jack Horner visited the convicted sex offender's New…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (44+ words) A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at a Wyoming museum is heading to an online auction as dinosaur prices keep soaring. A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at a Wyoming museum is heading to an online auction as…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (125+ words) A library has said it will happily "waive the fine" on a library book that was returned more than 60 years late. Darlington Library said the copy of Dogs and Their Management by Frederick Cousens was due back on 8 September 1962. The…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (256+ words) Two books have been returned to a library almost 50 years past their due date after being spotted in a charity shop 60 miles away. The books, which were found in Beverley earlier this week, were due to be returned to Leeds…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (619+ words) Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast majority of dinosaurs. That means if aliens were to exist, and they…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (9+ words) 'Fabulous' fossil of crow-sized dinosaur discovered in Patagonia'Yahoo...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (13+ words) The odd ways mammals descend trees and what it means for primate evolution'Yahoo...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (339+ words) Usually when paleontologists unearth dinosaur bones they don't have any idea what led to their ultimate demise. But a fossil from the duck-billed Edmontosaurus recovered from Montana's Hell Creek Formation in 2005 contained a pretty conspicuous clue'a sharp tooth buried in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (751+ words) Quick facts about Neanderthals When they lived: 400,000 to 34,000 years ago Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels. Some also ate mushrooms, moss and even tree bark. How…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (148+ words) A prehistoric discovery in northwest Missouri may be one of the rarest finds in the Midwest; a local paleontologist uncovered a mammoth bone, taking us back to the ice age when giants roamed the Show Me State.A prehistoric discovery…...