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Lee Shenton honored with lifetime achievement award for Utah paleontology
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (246+ words) Lee Shenton, president of the Utah Friends of Paleontology's Moab-based Gastonia Chapter, has received the organization's Lagerstätte Award for Lifetime Achievement in Volunteer Support of Paleontology, the chapter said in a release this week. The award was presented in his…...
Woolly dog pelt on loan to B.C. museum from the Smithsonian
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (550+ words) Published 4:07 pm Tuesday, September 8, 2026 The only known surviving pelt of the woolly dog is returning to B.C. for a period. The University of BC says the pelt, which has spent more than a century in storage, is coming the closest it…...
Desentierran en Argentina los huevos fosilizados de los dinosaurios más grandes conocidos
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (849+ words) Por Katie Hunt, CNN Los dinosaurios más grandes que jamás hayan existido eran capaces de reproducirse en latitudes altas —es decir, regiones alejadas del ecuador— y desarrollaron una estrategia ingeniosa para mantener calientes sus huevos. Así lo reveló un estudio…...
Concrete teacher brings Montana paleontology experience back to students
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (479+ words) Concrete Elementary School teacher Lisa Dills near the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary at Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. Educators from throughout the United States joined Burke Museum staff and graduate students for paleontology fieldwork in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. CONCRETE — Concrete Elementary School…...
Only known woolly dog pelt returns to B.C. after more than 160 years
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (772+ words) When Coast Salish artist Atheana Picha ran a gloved hand through the thick white pelt of an extinct woolly dog that has returned to British Columbia for the first time in more than 160 years, her thoughts turned to how her…...
One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils found in Norwegian sheep field
3+ hour, 36+ min ago (570+ words) image: One of the oldest known 3D fossils of an animal has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, the first new major site of its kind anywhere in Europe in decades. view more The fossil dates from…...
Extremely rare Woolly Dog pelt back in B.C. after more than 160 years | Globalnews.ca
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (276+ words) After roughly 160 years in storage at the Smithsonian Institution, the only surviving pelt of the once-abundant woolly dog has returned close to home. “The dog to whom this pelt belonged originated in the Chilliwack area in the territories of the…...
Canadian among researchers to discover dinosaurs nested further south than previously known
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (613+ words) Geoscience PhD student Kohei Tanaka and his supervisor Darla Zelenitsky have been working on a dinosaur eggshell fossil discovery in Japan.Riley Brandt/Supplied If you were present during the late Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago, it would be hard…...
Stone Age families relied on snakes and lizards for food
6+ hour, 7+ min ago (1182+ words) Snakes and lizards made up a surprising share of meals at a Natufian settlement, where the same butchering method persisted for millennia. The familiar picture of the Stone Age diet centers on big animals: a gazelle on a spit, a…...
A 600-Million-Year-Old Chemical Signal Reveals What Earth’s Earliest Animals Truly Looked Like
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (537+ words) No bones. No shells. Just chemical traces in ancient rocks that strengthen the case for Earth’s earliest sponges. In ancient rocks from Oman, western India and Siberia, researchers have identified what appear to be two unusual organic molecules with 31 carbon…...