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High School Science Teacher Finds Something Scientists Had Never Seen Before: A T. Rex Trackway
1+ hour, 44+ 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
3+ day, 17+ 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…...
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
4+ hour, 44+ 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
11+ hour, 24+ 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....
Genesis of Paleo at Princeton: 150 Years of Princeton Paleontology
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (409+ words) 150 Years of Princeton Paleontology brings real fossils from the University’s Geosciences collection, alongside the scientific publications describing them, to tell the story of the scientific lineage that founded modern vertebrate paleontology. On a hot June day in 1876, three Princeton undergraduates…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
10+ hour, 4+ min ago (357+ 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 her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Rare Ice Age discovery found in California creek
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (332+ words) A scientist surveying a creek in California's Bay Area for an environmental restoration project stumbled upon something far older than expected: a remarkably well-preserved mastodon tooth believed to be at least 10,000 years old, Yahoo! News reported. Researchers say the discovery…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
15+ hour, 16+ min ago (357+ 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 her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
12+ hour, 28+ min ago (762+ words) For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans....
T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery
17+ hour, 4+ min ago (232+ words) A T. rex apparently went for a stroll through what is now North Dakota, and scientists just traced its steps. Researchers report finding the first known series of footprints from... T. Rex Footprints Are a Discovery A T. rex apparently went for a…...