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4-Her's rare fossil find highlights Kansas State Fair exhibits
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (810+ words) Corbin Bullard, 12, recently displayed his fossil discovery in Manhattan at the Flint Hills Discovery Center. In the nearly four months since publicly revealing that he had uncovered a rare prehistoric fossil during a Kansas 4-H geology dig, 12-year-old Corbin Bullard’s…...
Biologists tagged a wild albatross in 1956: Decades later, Wisdom is outliving her researchers and raising chicks at age 75
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (274+ words) The Laysan Albatross is the world’s oldest known banded wild bird. ‘Wisdom’ has been using the same nest site area for over seven decades. Wisdom, a juvenile Laysan Albatross, was guarding her nest on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific…...
Giant Scorpion Fossil Reveals a One-Meter Devonian Predator
7+ hour, 9+ min ago (250+ words) A fossil pincer assigned to Praearcturus gigas, with a claw comparable in size to an entire large living scorpion. (The Trustees of the Natural History Museum / University of Manchester) A clear comparative example is Eramoscorpius brucensis, which is a Silurian…...
These Crabs Have Been Crawling Before the Dinosaurs
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (56+ words) Yahoo Delve into the remarkable yet precarious existence of the American horseshoe crab, a species that has thrived for over 200 million years but now faces an uncertain future. Learn about their unique characteristics, vital role in medical science, and the…...
Northern B.C. community brings back dinosaur mascot from extinction, after a nearly 30-year 'sabbatical' | CBC News
13+ hour, 17+ min ago (524+ words) The District of Hudson's Hope unveiled a new costume for the town's mascot, Dudley the Dinosaur, last week. It's been nearly 30 years since Dudley was shelved, with the original mascot costume retired around 1997 or 1998 due to wear and tear, explained…...
New multiproxy study suggests megaraptorids were agile apex predators
6+ hour, 11+ min ago (55+ words) Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: The relationship between skeletal pneumatization and body mass in megaraptorid theropod dinosaurs, revealing an evolutionary trend toward a gracile, air-filled model of large-bodied predation Subject of Research: Biology Article Title: Megaraptoridae: a gracile model of…...
Ancient???cheetah??? adapted to a fish-based diet to survive
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (478+ words) By Jeff Richardson, Special to the Van Nuys News Press When the now-extinct American cheetah was enduring the last ice age, a glaciated barrier broke up its territory into two distinct territories — one in central North America and another much…...
From Life’s Origin to Cyanobacteria in a Billion Years
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (193+ words) From Dr. Selim, “It came as a big surprise to us that one of the earliest life forms on Earth — evolutionarily older and simpler cells — had already developed communication structures regulated by calcium signals similar to those found in the…...
Ancient ‘cheetah’ adapted to a fish-based diet to survive
12+ hour, 53+ min ago (508+ words) By Jeff Richardson-UAF on Sep 5, 2026Comments Off on Ancient ‘cheetah’ adapted to a fish-based diet to survive When the now-extinct American cheetah was enduring the last ice age, a glaciated barrier broke up its territory into two distinct territories — one in…...
Northern B.C. community brings back dinosaur mascot from extinction, after a nearly 30-year 'sabbatical"
13+ hour, 17+ min ago (596+ words) The District of Hudson's Hope unveiled a new costume for the town's mascot, Dudley the Dinosaur, last week. It's been nearly 30 years since Dudley was shelved, with the original mascot costume retired around 1997 or 1998 due to wear and tear, explained…...