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What Happened to Australasia's Lost Crocodiles? New Research Reveals a Dramatic Extinction Story
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (886+ words) New research uncovers a lost world of strange crocodile relatives that once thrived across Australasia alongside early humans. The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia....
83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica's First Dinosaur Discovery
53+ min ago (591+ words) Life reconstruction of the Antarctic titanosaur. Image credit: Andrew Mc Afee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The Antarctic dinosaur vertebra came from the Santa Marta Formation on James Ross Island, off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Cataloged as BAS…...
Mammoth Cave artifact in Smithsonian U. S. 250 exhibit
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (199+ words) Gypsum stalactite, acquired from Mammoth Cave in 1892, is part of a current exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D. C. marking the nation's 250th anniversary." A unique gypsum stalactite from Mammoth Cave is currently on display at the Smithsonian's…...
520-Million-Year-Old Fossils Solve One of Evolution's Biggest Mysteries
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (430+ words) Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion. Now, exceptionally preserved fossils from southern China have filled that gap. Dating to about 520 million years ago, the fossils show that bryozoans were already thriving…...
Cosmo's Corner: Fun with Fossils
7+ hour, 31+ min ago (201+ words) Hi, folks! A friendly "meow" and a mighty dinosaur "roar" to you all. Cosmo the Library Cat here. In keeping with our "Unearth a Story" Summer Reading theme, you're invited to don your pith helmets and help us unearth some…...
Scientists recreated a dinosaur nest and solved a 70-million-year-old mystery
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (541+ words) A team of researchers recreated a life-size oviraptor nest to investigate how these bird-like dinosaurs incubated their eggs millions of years ago. By combining physical experiments with heat transfer simulations, they discovered that oviraptors likely relied on both their own…...
What We Are Reading Today: "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Ornithischians" by Bryce Jones
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (139+ words) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Ornithischians" brings together every species of armored and horn-faced dinosaur known to have roamed the prehistoric world, with a dedicated entry for each species describing its key characteristics, taxonomic classification, location, and known remains along…...
Ancient Sea Creature Pushes Back Origins of Spider Fangs to 518 Million Years Ago | Sci. News
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (178+ words) Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the fangs of spiders and the pincers of scorpions....
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'Mysterious' giant octopus discovered on Washington beach - AOL
7+ hour, 50+ min ago (220+ words) An alumni group affiliated with Western Washington University has shared images of a giant Pacific octopus that washed ashore recently in Bellingham. "Pictured is a local Marine Life Center staff member gathering data, giving us a chance to learn about…...