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Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (236+ words) Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass'thisiscolossal.com Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass Dakotaraptor, a fossilized skeleton of which was discovered a little more than 20 years ago by paleontologists in South Dakota, was an…...
Bishop Museum scientist helps rediscover 2 animals thought to be extinct
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (372+ words) HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Two marsupial species thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years have been rediscovered as living animals. On Thursday, Bishop Museum, along with the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History, announced that the pygmy long-fingered possum…...
Bishop Museum scientist helps rediscover 2 living animals thought to be extinct
5+ hour, 38+ min ago (69+ words) Bishop Museum scientist helps rediscover 2 living animals thought to be extinct'Hawaii News Now Bishop Museum scientist helps rediscover 2 living animals thought to be extinct Jen Robbins' Hawaii weather and surf report for March 5, 2026 Firefighters airlift elderly visitor after 30-foot fall…...
Two prehistoric sharks resurface after 325 million years: a fossil “treasure” for scientists
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (479+ words) Mammoth Cave, recognised as the largest cave network in the world with around 676 kilometres of underground passageways, has become a major palaeontological site. The unique conditions within this subterranean environment have enabled exceptional fossil preservation, revealed during a recent inventory…...
Analyze This: Primates may have evolved in the cold
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (1169+ words) Surprisingly, the earliest relative of humans, apes and monkeys might not have lived in the tropics Today, primates, including monkeys and apes, are more common in the hot, humid tropics. That's led people to think that primates evolved in such…...
Salinas Pueblo Missions To Celebrate Park Fossil Finds With Special Programming | Mountainair, NM 87036
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (415+ words) Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is excited to host special programs on March 28, 2026, to celebrate the monument's paleontology and fossil discoveries. In 2017, park staff discovered the fossil remains of a varanopid, an early mammal relative that lived ~275 million years ago,…...
Peterborough Cathedral to host giant dinosaur skeleton model
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (375+ words) A full-scale model skeleton of one of the largest creatures to ever walk on Earth is to go on display outside of London for the first time. The cast of the Patagotitan Mayorum dinosaur measures 37m (121ft) from head to tail and…...
Fossil discovery sheds light on 'fish to human' evolution_InKunming - 昆明信息港
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (705+ words) Source: China Daily | 2026-03-06 | Editor:Doe Zhu Min introduces the discovery of the oldest known bony fish fossil at a conference on research results on tracing the early evolutionary history of "from fish to humans". Sun Zifa/China News Service While…...
The 90-Million-Year-Old Tiny Predator - How an Argentine Fossil is Rewriting Dinosaur History
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (410+ words) The suspicion was validated by microscopic examination of the bones. The dinosaur weighed less than two pounds, but it was at least four years old. The conversation is altered just by that particular detail. Many scientists believed that very small…...
Southampton dinosaur expert’s part in new Spielberg documentary
7+ hour, 35+ min ago (259+ words) University of Southampton paleobiologist Dr Neil Gostling provided expert advice for the Netflix series The Dinosaurs, which launches today. And former undergraduate and master's student at the university, Thomas Land, was a science researcher on the series. Dr Gostling, Associate…...