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Dinosaur highway "longest of its kind in the world
11+ min ago (48+ words) Nagaland Post Dinosaur highway "longest of its kind in the world" A dinosaur trackway made up of 200 footprints which were made 166 million years ago is the largest of its kind uncovered in the world, researchers have said....
Giant short-faced bear fossil
just now (31+ words) FOX 13 Tampa Bay "Giant" is no joke of a word in this case. Dr. Bob Sinibaldi shares just how big giant short-faced bears were....
Dinosaur Day returns to Dinosaur Journey Museum this weekend
29+ min ago (295+ words) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Dinosaur Day returns to the Western Slope this Saturday with educational activities and tours at the Dinosaur Journey Museum. "Dinosaur Journey is a wonderful place to come and learn about your local fossils. We have a…...
Climate change-fuelled storm 'decimated world's rarest great apes"
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (354+ words) PUBLISHED: 11 Jun 2026 at 08: 33 JAKARTA - Climate change-fuelled landslides wiped out nearly one in ten of the world's rarest great ape species on Indonesia's Sumatra island, scientists said on Wednesday. A single weather event last November pushed the Tapanuli orangutan -- of which…...
Bona fide T. rex leather purse is going up for auction " and it could fetch $500 K - AOL
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (390+ words) It's a sale of Jurass-chic proportions." Birkins are beautiful. Chanel bags, tr's magnifique. But a purse derived from 66-million-year-old purse dinosaur DNA simply cannot be beat, per the Parisian auction house hawking the prehistoric must-have for over $500, 000 on Thursday. Bidding…...
What are we and where do we come from? A Catalan study rewrites the history of complex life
11+ hour, 17+ min ago (340+ words) Barcelona That you, reader, are now reading this article or that, while you read it, there are beings as fantastic as whales crossing the Mediterranean or tritons splashing in streams of Montseny surrounded by beeches, firs, holm oaks and oaks…...
MPL: Community Show & Tell
9+ hour, 27+ min ago (45+ words) KMCH. com MPL: Community Show & Tell Registration is required, but we will allow walk-ins if there is time available! Want to register or have questions? Visit manchesterlibraryia. org or call the Manchester Public Library at 563-927-3719....
A 5. 3 million-year-old whale graveyard has been found on the floor of the Indian Ocean
46+ min ago (217+ words) Chinese scientists have discovered hundreds of ancient whale carcasses deep in the Diamantina Zone off the coast of Western Australia....
Frozen squirrel poop from Yukon is full of woolly mammoth, horse DNA | CBC News
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (787+ words) Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic during the last ice age using DNA found in frozen squirrel poop from the Yukon. "We were able to…...
Squirrel poop dating back to last ice age is full of mammoth, horse DNA - CBC
8+ hour, 51+ min ago (126+ words) Animal, plant, fungal DNA in squirrel latrine paints picture of Arctic grasslands in Age of Mammoths Caption: An artist's reconstruction of Pleistocene Yukon shows Arctic ground squirrels scavenging meat and foraging on plants within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem. Ancient DNA from…...