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Giant crocodylians may have ruled South America’s food chain 12 million years ago
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (18+ words) The Brighter Side of News...
Tarlac State University advances research on Ayta Abellings’ ancestral domain
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (268+ words) THE Tarlac State University’s Center for Peace, Indigenous Peoples Resources and Development (CPIPRD) is pursuing development on ancestral domain as it presented progress on its research on Indigenous communities. Known as ‘Integrated Governance, Health, and Nutritional Assessment of the Ayta…...
Stroh???s painting of Triceratops goes international to the Netherlands
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (120+ words) LUSK – Dr. Rene H. B. Fraaije, owner of the Het Oertijdmuseum in Boxtel, Netherlands, has pursued his passion for excavating dinosaur fossils worldwide since childhood. With Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota being rich in fossils, Fraaije has been spending more…...
GRAND COUNTY ANKYLOSAURS! Moab's Armored Giants
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (91+ words) Moab Sun News GRAND COUNTY ANKYLOSAURS! Moab's Armored Giants Dr. Joshua Lively, Curator of Paleontology at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price, presents an update on Ankylosaur discoveries in Grand County during the 2026 Field Season. These armored giants include…...
Moscow opens its first dinosaur skeleton exhibition, where visitors can buy the exhibits — Meduza
4+ hour, 49+ min ago (227+ words) An exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, prehistoric animal skulls, and meteorite fragments — all offered for sale — opened in Moscow on August 25. An exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, prehistoric animal skulls, and meteorite fragments â all offered for sale â opened in Moscow…...
The art of bringing dinosaurs back to life (NPR+): TED Radio Hour
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (588+ words) When Manoush visited the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum for our 2024 episode, “The day the dinosaurs died” (https://n.pr/4xldbPo), she saw a museum breaking conventions. The exhibits didn’t have bones. Instead, true-to-life models of dinosaurs jumped across the aisles or swam through…...
A Near Extinct Plant in Galápagos Is Now Recovering
5+ hour, 28+ min ago (449+ words) PUBLISHED ON August 26, 2026 CALETA TAGUS, Galápagos Islands — The project’s origins can be traced back to a single herbarium specimen collected in 1962 near Caleta Tagus. For decades, it was the only evidence the plant existed at all. Patricia Jaramillo Díaz, a…...
"It had two gigantic 20cm fangs that it used to tear apart its prey." 10 horrifying, terrifying prehistoric sea monsters that once ruled our oceans
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (1312+ words) The seas have been home to some monstrous creatures over the course of the last 500 million years. Here are 10 that you’ll be glad are long extinct… For more than half a billion years, evolution has run amok in our world’s…...
Who Survived the Great Dying – and Why | Life and Death on Pangea | Eons
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1686+ words) Around 250 million years ago, at the dawn of the Triassic Period, life on Earth was devastated. Eventually, the survivors of the Permian would be replaced by new ecosystems unlike anything the world had ever seen. The age of reptiles was…...
An Ice Age Toad Sat Hidden in a Museum for 70 Years
7+ hour, 25+ min ago (360+ words) A researcher discovered a previously unknown amphibian that lived during the Ice Age in what is now Los Angeles. This extinct spadefoot toad species, named Spea labreae, is the first new amphibian species discovered from the La Brea Tar Pits....