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Chinese fossil shows internal organs of prehistoric marine reptile
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (675+ words) July 30 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a fossil in China of a long-necked marine reptile from 245 million years ago that is so well preserved that it reveals the animal's stomach, liver and intestines, providing an unparalleled look at reptilian internal anatomy…...
Woolly Mammoth Remains Found in Danube Near Ruse, Bulgaria - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency
34+ min ago (802+ words) The remains discovered on the bottom of the Danube River near the village of Ryahovo in the Bulgarian Ruse region have been identified as belonging to a young woolly mammoth, scientists from the Regional History Museum in Ruse said. The…...
Mammoth remains revealed in Bulgaria after Danube water levels hit record low
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (199+ words) SOFIA - The remains of what is believed to be an ancient mammoth have been revealed in northern Bulgaria, after Danube River water levels receded to a record low level, the BTA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing historians. The animal's…...
Mammoth bones found on parched bed of Danube in Bulgaria
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (257+ words) SOFIA - Sinking water levels in the Danube River have unveiled bones of a mammoth in Bulgaria and could lead to further discoveries, a local museum director told AFP on Thursday. The bone fragments found near the northeastern city of Ruse…...
New dinosaur discovered in Zimbabwe
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (311+ words) A species of dinosaur discovered in Zimbabwe has revealed new details about the the creatures that lived in southern Africa. Named Musango matusadonaensis, the 4.5-metre-long dinosaur is just the fifth ever named from the African country. Discovered on the shore…...
Low Danube waters reveal Ice Age mammoth remains in Bulgaria
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (1103+ words) Krassen Nikolov EUalive with agencies July 31, 2026 05:06 The discovery was made after residents of Ryahovo, in the Ruse region near the Romanian border, noticed unusually large bones exposed by the receding river. They alerted local authorities, who sent specialists from the…...
Paleontologists Unearth Crocodile Tooth, Dinosaur Bone at Tran Fossil Site
20+ hour, 55+ min ago (187+ words) БТА site.btaPaleontologists Unearth Crocodile Tooth, Dinosaur Bone at Tran Fossil Site A crocodile tooth and a dinosaur bone are among the latest fossils uncovered during the 9th paleontological expedition to Bulgaria’s Tran dinosaur fossil site, the National Museum of Natural…...
Latest must-have for the billionaire who's got everything? £40M T-Rex
8+ hour, 15+ min ago (1120+ words) By TOM LEONARD, US CORRESPONDENT It must be soul-destroying for the world's richest people to think they have everything money can buy – and then discover that there's something they don't possess but others do. Like a dinosaur. As confirmed by…...
In 1974 in Ethiopia a team dug up a skeleton that pushed the human story back millions of years: 'Lucy,' about 3.2 million years old, showed that our ancestors walked upright long before they ever grew big brains
7+ hour ago (566+ words) The discovery of Lucy overturned a century of assumptions about what made us human—and revealed that walking upright was our first, not final, evolutionary gamble. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 30, 2026 Many scientists once had the human story…...
Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making
10+ hour, 57+ min ago (241+ words) Almost all of these tiny organisms vanished way back in the early Cretaceous period 3:00 PM CDT on July 30, 2026 Ocean acidification was considered a likely culprit. When foraminifera are living in favorable, non-acidic conditions, they build their shells more quickly. Declining…...