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Near Wyoming: The Skeleton Who Walks A Giant T-Rex On A Leash In South Dakota
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (844+ words) For decades, motorists speeding down Interstate 90 in west-central South Dakota have done double takes at a towering human skeleton leading a T. rex on a leash. It's a quirky prairie creation born from one man's lifelong dream to build his own…...
Unearth a story with Spokane County Library District's summer reading program
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (219+ words) SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- Dig into a summer of reading and discovery with the Spokane County Library District's Summer Reading Program! This year's online summer reading challenge2, themed Unearth a Story, will take place from June 1 until August 31." It is open for…...
Reported ancient mammoth bones found deep in Alaska were actually whales from 250 miles away
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (438+ words) Once scientists inspected the bones more thoroughly, they realized what they actually were. What for decades looked like a remarkable woolly mammoth discovery in Alaska has turned into an even stranger scientific mystery. Researchers say fossilized backbones " not a complete…...
Scientists uncovered a bizarre crocodile cousin that started life crawling close to the ground and grew up walking upright like something from another world
10+ hour, 13+ min ago (551+ words) For most people, crocodiles belong on the ground. Slow movements beside rivers and swamps. But experts studying ancient fossils found evidence of something that behaved differently. It began life low to the ground, much like modern crocodilians. Then its body…...
Much-loved Atherstone librarian retires after 45 years
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (295+ words) A much-loved librarian has shelved her last book after serving her community for nearly half a century. Gail Fordham retired after working at Atherstone Library for 45 years, marking the end of an era for the north Warwickshire-based facility. She was…...
Massive marine predator crowned T rex of the ocean and 'a true terror of its time"
13+ hour, 52+ min ago (1128+ words) Paleontologists have long hailed Tyrannosaurus rex as king of the dinosaurs. Now, the name 'T rex' also belongs to a newly described extinct carnivore - a massive marine reptile with the scientific name Tylosaurus rex that a trio of researchers uncovered…...
Swedish expert on mission to bring Jurassic era to life
5+ min ago (435+ words) Two hundred million years ago, the land that became southern Sweden was covered in lush vegetation where crocodiles and dinosaurs roamed, an era palaeontologist Vivi Vajda and her team have set out to reconstruct. In a wing of the Museum…...
Newly Discovered "Witch Croc" Reveals Dinosaur-Like Evolution in the Triassic
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (420+ words) A newly described fossil from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, belongs to the crocodile family tree, but unlike most crocodile-line archosaurs, it walked on two legs, had small arms, and a toothless beak." Researchers from the Natural History Museum of Los…...
Jaw-dropping 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks find new Texas home
36+ min ago (13+ words) My SA...
Here are shark teeth findings from the shores of Nassau to St. Johns
56+ min ago (26+ words) A lot of beachgoers like to search for shark teeth. Many of the fossilized black, gray and brown teeth are a 10, 000-plus years old....