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You Can Own a Jurassic Park Collection 30+ Years in the Making " If You Have $700k to Spare
35+ min ago (429+ words) Comic Book. com To the dedicated collector, few sights are as awe-inspiring as a collection decades in the making, especially one entirely focused on a specific property or franchise. With that level of time and dedication, a collector amasses the…...
Pterosaur wing fossil preserves soft tissues for 113 million years
18+ hour, 59+ min ago (279+ words) Fossil Pterosaur Stuns Scientists with Preserved Soft Tissues inkorr. com Fossil Pterosaur Stuns Scientists with Preserved Soft Tissues Pterosaur Research in Brazil According to " " ": A study published in the scientific journal i Science describes the discovery of a fragment from…...
Edinburgh Fringe Interview: Mandy Rubeli on DINOSAURS at Greenside @ Riddle's Court
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (784+ words) Mandy Rubeli Image supplied without credit by publicist Mandy Rubeli brings DINOSAURS to the Edinburgh Fringe, a genre-bending new play that combines dark comedy with an exploration of trauma and healing. Written by and starring Rubeli, the production arrives with…...
Scientists Built a Life-Size Dinosaur Nest and the Results Were Surprising
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (459+ words) How exactly did oviraptors, bird-like but flightless dinosaurs, hatch their eggs? Scientists have long debated whether these dinosaurs relied mainly on heat from the environment, similar to crocodiles and turtles, or used body warmth from a brooding adult like modern…...
Team with UM researchers identifies fishes that fill 10-million-year evolutionary gap
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (326+ words) A team that included University of Michigan researchers has excavated earliest known fossils of six modern fish groups from a site in Egypt, helping fill gaps about a key period of fish evolution from 66 million to 56 million years ago. The…...
What the rocks of Melville Koppies have been waiting billions of years to tell us
6+ hour, 3+ min ago (369+ words) What if one of Joburg's oldest beaches wasn't along the coast " but right beneath your hiking boots? That is one of the remarkable stories geologist Professor Jill Drennan shared during her Written in Stone talk at Melville Koppies, where she…...
Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil sat unnoticed for 40 years before a scientist spotted it
9+ hour, 6+ min ago (312+ words) Scientists have now identified a bone gathered in Antarctica in 1985 as the continent's earliest recognized dinosaur fossil. Only after nearly four decades in storage did researchers realize it belonged to a dinosaur." The specimen was collected on the Antarctic Peninsula…...
Acronichthys " DINOSAURS AND BARBARIANS
8+ hour, 14+ min ago (57+ words) Home " Paleontology " Acronichthys By Jason R. Abdale on July 5, 2026 " ( 0 ) Acronichthys was a tiny fish measuring just 4 cm (1. 6 inches) long which lived in freshwater environments within western North America during the late Cretaceous Period 90-66 million years ago. Acronichthys maccognoi. " Jason R. Abdale (July…...
Impossible pictures tylosaurus comparison
7+ hour, 38+ min ago (28+ words) Don Caldwell " 14 years ago Uploaded by Kimmy Dude 17 minutes ago Resolution: (1280px x 1260px) File size: 190 KB 5 views (5 from today) Uploaded 17 minutes ago...
Documentary trex 1999-2025 | Paleontology
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (23+ words) Don Caldwell " 14 years ago Uploaded by Kimmy Dude 16 minutes ago Resolution: (1144px x 1354px) File size: 418 KB Uploaded 16 minutes ago...