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11+ hour, 11+ min ago  (877+ words) Whether they identify as Chicano, Latino or Hispanic, for ma" In Delta County, over 60 murals tell stories of the past and" If you want to see dinosaur tracks in Western Colorado, most people in the know will send you along…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago  (709+ words) The legendary mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Ever" At least 182 killed as Israel strikes central Beirut after saying Iran truce doe" The fossil is actually a species related to a modern Nautilus, a multi-tentacled animal with…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (517+ words) A few days after celebrating it's one year anniversary of being officially open to the public, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum has decided to celebrate by introducing long-awaited discounts for Rowan University students. The discount was announced in an…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago  (830+ words) A fast, land-running relative of crocodiles has emerged from a 215-million-year-old fossil found in England nearly 60 years ago. That animal changes early croc evolution by showing these hunters were already splitting into different running styles before the end-Triassic die-off. In…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago  (335+ words) Teton Valley News This week we are going to rely more on pictures than text, hoping that a picture is worth a thousand words. Recently Joyce Mears provided an interesting image to Teton Valley News to learn if what she…...

5+ hour, 56+ min ago  (482+ words) A mysterious line of giant footprints has emerged in eastern France, preserved for millions of years. At first glance they seem simple, yet researchers say they hold clues that go far beyond their shape. A 508-foot trail of fossilized dinosaur…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago  (193+ words) image: 289-million-year-old reptile Captorhinus in its death pose in a cave system. Oil seepages, hyper-mineralized water, fine clays in this cave made it an ideal environment formummification and fossilization of soft tissues like skin, cartilage, and protein remnants. view more…...

5+ hour ago  (1706+ words) Hidden just off US-160 near Tuba City, Arizona, the Navajo Moenave Dinosaur Tracks site is one of the most jaw-dropping roadside stops in the entire Southwest. Around 200 million years ago, real dinosaurs walked across soft, muddy ground here, leaving behind…...

6+ hour, 32+ min ago  (238+ words) Rebecca Clemons is a graduate student studying the evolution of immunity in amphibians and understanding how amphibian immune systems respond to pathogens." Rebecca will be running the amphibian disease activity. This activity explores how frogs face tradeoffs between being able…...

7+ hour, 34+ min ago  (69+ words) Captorhinus aguti (IMAGE)Eurek Alert! Illustrated whole body skeletal diagram in left side viewdepicting the cartilaginous components in yellow that are described for the firsttime in thisstudy. Reisz et al. (Nature 2026) diagram altered from Heaton & Reisz (1980). Heaton, M. J. & Reisz, R. R. A skeletal…...