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KANE: Dinosaur program at Friends" Memorial Library
3+ hour, 31+ min ago (146+ words) Friends' Memorial Public Library will host Cris Johnson's "Jurassic Journeys: Dino Extravaganza Experience" at 11 a. m. Saturday in the library's downstairs meeting room. The interactive program will explore the world of dinosaurs through a combination of education and entertainment. Participants will learn…...
Learn the story behind the Cabazon outlet stores' Jurassic neighbors
57+ min ago (23+ words) The Desert Sun Learn the story behind the Cabazon outlet stores' Jurassic neighbors...
Le Sueur Public Library hosts Dino Dimensions program
5+ hour, 16+ min ago (143+ words) southernminn. com - St. Peter Herald - Le Sueur County News Sampler Severe Thunderstorm Watch from WED 2: 00 PM CDT until WED 10: 00 PM CDT The Dino Dimensions showcase was part of the Le Sueur Public Library's prehistoric-themed summer reading program. Report: Man shoots…...
FSU scientists find gas emissions from rocks may have contributed to ancient climate swings, mass extinctions
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (503+ words) Modeled global temperature changes in degrees Fahrenheit from the combined effects of metamorphic carbon and sulfur emissions over several millennia. Red shading indicates net warming and blue shading net cooling. The garnet dashed line indicates the warming that would result…...
What Dr. Rana Gets Wrong About Radiometric Dating
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (1182+ words) Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth was published by Reasons to Believe, which is an old-earth creationist organization. The author, biochemist Dr. Fazale Rana, argued that young-earth creationists" interpretation of Scripture is wrong. That claim was refuted from…...
Researchers confirm cause of Earth's biggest mass extinction
10+ hour, 18+ min ago (578+ words) Through experiments comparing living representatives of animal groups that dominated Paleozoic oceans with those that thrive today, Stanford scientists have directly linked the disappearance of once-dominant marine groups to intolerable heat and diminished oxygen in ancient oceans. Studying the metabolism…...
Dino Dimensions 2 |
5+ hour, 16+ min ago (133+ words) Dino Dimensions 2 southernminn. com - St. Peter Herald - Le Sueur County News Sampler Severe Thunderstorm Watch from WED 2: 00 PM CDT until WED 10: 00 PM CDT The Dino Dimensions showcase was part of the Le Sueur Public Library's prehistoric-themed summer reading program. Le…...
Rock Gas Emissions Linked to Ancient Climate Shifts
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (336+ words) An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered new evidence about processes that may have contributed to ancient mass-extinction events, some of the most dramatic ecosystem reorganizations in Earth's history. The study,…...
This fierce crocodile cousin sat forgotten in a museum drawer for 75 years before anyone noticed
4+ hour, 13+ min ago (386+ words) A cousin of crocodiles had been resting in a museum since 1948 without anyone noticing. Long snout or reinforced skull: two predators lived side by side 210 million years ago. Their bones remained buried together for millions of years. A team from…...
The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws
4+ hour, 50+ min ago (213+ words) The science behind nature's different puncture tools 1: 01 PM CDT on July 8, 2026 With "puncture" defined as "the use of a sharpened tool to penetrate a target while the target remains intact," the study authors plotted shape against performance for 143 natural structures…...