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World's largest frog collection in California takes up a second home
7+ hour, 24+ min ago (334+ words) For more than 40 years, Susan Burgos has collected frog memorabilia from around the world, turning a simple hobby into a Guinness World Record. Her collection of more than 32,000 frog-related items far surpasses the previous record of just over 10,500. Burgos, from…...
T-rex footprints found in North Dakota
13+ hour, 3+ min ago (36+ words) Scientists in North Dakota made a huge discovery after finding the first set of adult Tyrannosaurus rex footprints. Scientists in North Dakota made a huge discovery after finding the first set of adult Tyrannosaurus rex footprints....
Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (266+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught... Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco Brigid Lynch was…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (648+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
Bizarre squid relative found in Wyoming is unlike anything seen before
8+ hour, 59+ min ago (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...
High School Science Teacher Finds Something Scientists Had Never Seen Before: A T. Rex Trackway
10+ hour, 22+ min ago (430+ words) A high school science teacher went fossil hunting in North Dakota and ended up discovering something scientists had never documented before: a trail of footprints left by a full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex....
Georgia O'Keeffe bought a small Ghost Ranch home in 1940 and spent decades painting the surrounding desert; a conservation plan is now protecting 6,000 acres from development
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (413+ words) Long before the desert landscapes of Northern New Mexico became icons of American art, they were simply a vast meeting of red cliffs, golden mesas, open skies and rugged wilderness. For artist Georgia O’Keeffe, that landscape became both a home…...
She Was Looking for Frogs. Then She Stumbled Upon a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Mystery in a Creek
7+ hour, 6+ min ago (475+ words) A routine frog habitat survey in a California creek revealed a massive fossil hiding half beneath the water. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
13+ hour, 22+ min ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Four giant three-toed prints found in 2025 near Marmarth, North Dakota turned out to be the first trackway ever attributed to an adult T. rex, and the 66.5-million-year-old sequence records a 13-foot stride — the predator was strolling at 3.5 to 4.5 mph, about the pace of a brisk human walk
20+ hour, 2+ min ago (23+ words) Paleontology owns thousands of Tyrannosaurus rex bones, dozens of skeletons, and exactly one thing it never had until this week: a recorded walk....