Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...
Museum With Renowned Dinosaur Fossils Gets a $25 Million Gift
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, home to the Tyrannosaurus rex holotype and a famous Diplodocus, will benefit from Carole and Daniel Kamin’s donation.
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
'Stunning' 100 million year old fossil found on British beach
The extremely well-preserved ammonite - believed to be between 100 to 105 million years-old - has been discovered on the Isle ...
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Sedimentary Ancient DNA From Spain’s El Mirón Cave Studied
According to a statement released by the University of New Mexico, researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Victoria Oberreiter ...
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The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
Paleontology Shaken: Organic Molecules Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones
Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...
8 Ancient Archaeological Sites That Pre-Date the Clovis People
Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The ...
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Rare Neck Fossil With Puncture Mark Suggests a Prehistoric Crocodilian Snacked on a Young Pterosaur 76 Million Years Ago
The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
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Is the American dream still in reach?
Few tenets of the American mythos are more enduring than the American dream. But the aspiration to move upward toward a brighter tomorrow feels out of reach, a significant number of people in the ...