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The National Park Service just uncovered a long-necked dinosaur
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (414+ words) Park workers excavated 3,000 pounds of fossil and rock National Park Service employees may have just uncovered one of the longest dinosaurs on Earth. Crews working on construction at the Dinosaur National Monument's Utah parking lot last September stumbled upon the…...
Rex will let you know when he's ready for attention
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (124+ words) Rex is our Hearts4Paws Pet of the Week! He's a cockapoo " probably 8-10 years old who still has a long life ahead! He has lots of energy and even gets the zoomies when he's excited. Rex would love to live in a…...
Fossil analysis changes what paleontologists know about how long T. rex took to grow full size
3+ hour ago (622+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists have long counted annual growth rings in fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex leg bones to calculate both their age at…...
Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (330+ words) LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Jeffrey Martz is the curator of paleontology at The Museum at Texas Tech. "We actually have one of the most important collections in the world of fossils from the beginning of the age of dinosaurs," Martz said....
Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators of Texas
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (59+ words) Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators of Texas'KCBD Museum at Texas Tech presents Prehistoric Predators of Texas Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Lubbock McDonald's donates food to feed more than 300 people City of Lubbock…...
Meet The Snake That Refused To Lose Its Legs — A Herpetologist Explains
4+ hour, 23+ min ago (661+ words) If you thought that snakes were always slithering, limbless creatures, then you'd be mistaken; hundreds of millions of years ago, snakes crawled before they slithered. However, deep in the Patagonia badlands of Argentina, one fossil has been undoing decades of…...
Newly discovered dinosaur fossil from 150 million years ago excavated at Dinosaur National Monument
5+ hour, 40+ min ago (358+ words) Before they repaved paradise and put in a parking lot, they called the staff paleontologist. That's protocol for Dinosaur National Monument, the remote, high desert outpost in northwestern Colorado where the Yampa and Green rivers converge, and that's famous for…...
T. rex fossil rewrites history and reveals how long they really lived
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (735+ words) A groundbreaking study of'Tyrannosaurus rex fossils has rewritten what humans know about these prehistoric predators and how long they lived millions of years ago. A study by three US researchers revealed that T. rex didn't reach their full adult size until…...
2-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Be The Oldest Example of an Early Human
10+ hour, 53+ min ago (649+ words) An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') " one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered…...
Creature with enormous eyes rediscovered in a Roman mine that dates back 2,000 years
11+ hour, 10+ min ago (789+ words) A creature with enormous eyes hid for centuries beneath a Spanish city and appeared in a forgotten Roman mine dating back 2,000 years The Carmona isopod, a new species named Baeticoniscus carmonaensis, turned up in a 2,000-year-old Roman water mine beneath…...