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If Earth's 4.5-billion-year history were compressed into a single day, life would appear before breakfast, the dinosaurs would arrive near eleven at night and vanish twenty minutes later—and all of human history would fit in the final two seconds before midnight
15+ min ago (1222+ words) A cosmic clock that renders four and a half billion years comprehensible—and humanity's entire story almost invisible. Published July 21, 2026 A day is short enough to feel. That is why it is such a useful trick for thinking about Earth....
Fossilised 320-million-year-old fish found in Leeds' Roundhay Park
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (942+ words) A prehistoric fish fossil has been unearthed at Roundhay Park in Leeds. The fascinating prehistoric skull bone of a coelacanth fish was discovered by a geologist at Roundhay Park earlier this year. It is thought the creature was frozen in…...
Prehistoric fish found in Leeds park
23+ hour, 49+ min ago (81+ words) It is believed the creature had lain undiscovered for more than 320,000,000 years....
How Sam Neill’s Jurassic Park performance inspired a generation of paleontologists
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (974+ words) "Sam Neill’s performance shaped the trajectory of my life." The sudden death of actor Sam Neill prompted tributes from colleagues and fans worldwide. But the news also resonated strongly with many palaeontologists, for whom Neill’s character in Jurassic Park, Dr…...
Kids can 'dig for dinosaur bones' at new attraction 1hr 30 mins from London
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (363+ words) The Dino Dig is amongst three new exhibits at the popular facility (stock image)(Image: AAlves via Getty Images) With the school summer holidays now under way for many children across the UK, parents are already on the hunt for…...
The world's fastest muscles point to a surprising evolutionary history
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (906+ words) Every movement you make begins with the same tiny molecular interaction. A protein called myosin grabs onto another protein, actin, and pulls. That pull is what makes muscles contract. Scientists first worked out this mechanism in mammals about a century…...
Museum of the Rockies tech experts remodel dinosaur's face
10+ hour, 57+ min ago (20+ words) NBC Montana Museum of the Rockies tech experts remodel dinosaur's face...
The Heuchera Fyre Wing Series from Terra Nova Takes Flight
16+ hour, 43+ min ago (362+ words) Terra Nova Nurseries has announced the release of the Heuchera Fyre Wing™ Series, which is the first lace-leaf heuchera collection in the world and a new morphology for the genus. All images courtesy of Terra Nova Nurseries, Eberly & Collard Public…...
A paleontologist noticed the dirt inside a fossil rodent's empty tooth sockets was smoother than sediment should ever be — CT scans revealed up to six generations of bee nests, built and rebuilt in the same cavity over thousands of years.
12+ hour, 50+ min ago (216+ words) Paleontologist Lázaro W. Viñola-López, of Chicago's Field Museum, was cleaning fossil jawbones from an extinct Caribbean rodent called a hutia when he noticed something that did not sit right. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 The paper…...
Tuna didn't evolve because dinosaurs went extinct, study finds
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (895+ words) For a long time, the story of the tuna began with a catastrophe. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, and cleared the oceans of their largest predatory fish. The tidy version says tunas and…...