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Scale up at ‘Dino Fest,’ the Natural History Museum’s annual rawr-tacular – NBC Los Angeles
37+ min ago (266+ words) The unofficial-but-widely-observed summer season comes to a definitive conclusion either at the end of August or around Labor Day, depending on your general preference. Either way, you know that you have to totally, and we do mean totally, get some…...
New prehistoric 'bum-head' shrimp species found in fossil forest - AOL
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (460+ words) A new species of prehistoric shrimp has been discovered by palaeontologists working at a fossil forest in Wrexham. The 300-million-year-old crustacean was just 5cm long (2in) and was found at a heritage site in Brymbo. Its Latin name means "rump" or "bum-headed…...
Testing Phylogenetic Hypotheses: A Question for You
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (327+ words) You can read this proposition a dozen times over and still be unable to say what it disallows in phylogenetic inference. Source You are hereby double dared to parse the sentence at the end of the indented quote further down…...
New prehistoric 'bum-head' shrimp species found in fossil forest
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (508+ words) A new species of prehistoric shrimp has been discovered by palaeontologists working at a fossil forest in Wrexham. The 300-million-year-old crustacean was just 5cm long (2in) and was found at a heritage site in Brymbo. Its Latin name means "rump" or "bum-headed…...
Placer Library???s Jurassic Summer Reading Program inspires more than 2.7 million minutes of reading
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (395+ words) Published Aug. 12, 2026 Placer County readers spent the summer digging into books, completing activities and exploring the world of reading as part of the 2026 Jurassic Summer Reading Program: “Unearth a Story!” The annual program, which ran June 7 through Aug. 8, attracted 3,102 readers…...
A Shrimp-Like Creature Had the World's Oldest Fang — and Spawned Spiders
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (247+ words) If you have arachnophobia, you’re not alone. It turns out you might share a fear that spans approximately 518 million years. Scientists have finally discovered the earliest known evidence of arachnids thanks to a fossil that was determined to be equally…...
International Left-Handers Day: My left hand knows what my right hand can’t do
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (175+ words) When you grow up in a world not built for you, you learn that survival often means adaptation. It’s not easy being a left-hander in a world designed for right-handers, says the writer. But some, like former US president Barack…...
Fossil???s last meal challenges 245-million-year claim, could indicate flood burial
3+ hour, 43+ min ago (940+ words) The fossil of a pre-dinosaur marine reptile, found in southern China, is offering scientists a nearly perfect picture of its simple digestive tract, with the scales of a sushi dinner still preserved inside. But leading creation scientist and trained geologist…...
A museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute
5+ hour, 29+ min ago (214+ words) first T. rex novel — Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (1916) / public domain, via The Public Domain Review Louis Pope Gratacap was the curator of mineralogy at the American Museum of Natural History from 1880 until his death in 1917. He usually…...
When did humans become right-handed?
4+ hour, 56+ min ago (824+ words) There were no questionnaires in the Stone Age asking people which hand they preferred. No prehistoric schoolchild wrote “right-handed” on a form. Yet scientists have found ingenious ways to investigate which hand our ancestors used hundreds of thousands of years…...