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Sun, 2019-05-19

The men reported their rare find to a local museum where it was confirmed that the fossilised remains dated to the Cretaceous Period...

Sat, 2019-05-18

When the bones of an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil site, the find wasn't made by researchers but by two Florida Museum of Natural History volunteers.

Sat, 2019-05-18

More than 25 years after it was discovered, the largest...

Sat, 2019-05-18

A teen searching for arrowheads in southern Iowa found something much bigger: the prehistoric jawbone of a mastodon.

Sat, 2019-05-18

The Gray Fossil Site in East Tennessee, which preserves the remains of a diverse ecosystem dating to the late Miocene to early...

Sat, 2019-05-18

Bedbugs are blood-sucking parasites in the family Cimicidae. A multinational research team led by University of Sheffield, the University Museum Bergen and Dresden University h...

Fri, 2019-05-17

The Jurassic World films explore what happens when man messes with nature. Or a highly fictionalized version thereof. To the surprise of no one, things go to sh*t, and fast. And...

Sat, 2019-05-18

UQ Ph.D. candidate Andréas Jannel and colleagues from UQ's Dinosaur Lab analysed fossils of Australia's only named Jurassic...

Fri, 2019-05-17

Nearly 300 million years ago, in a sandy desert now preserved as Coconino Sandstone at Grand Canyon National Park, some creatures walked across an area left moist very likely by an oasis. Those tracks, revealed today in a remote area o...

Wed, 2019-05-15

Researchers in Germany have unearthed a new species of flying dinosaur that flapped its wings like a raven and could hold vital clues as to how modern-day b...

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