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Unveiling the Past: 132-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks Discovered on South Africa's Coast
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (335+ words) In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 132-million-year-old dinosaur tracks along the picturesque coast of South Africa. This remarkable find has the potential to significantly enhance our understanding of prehistoric life during the Early Cretaceous period, a time when dinosaurs…...
Bird and tortoise fossil tracks on SA coast " latest findings are world firsts
16+ hour, 5+ min ago (794+ words) The south coast of the Western Cape is a rich source of fossil tracks and traces " clues suggesting what this environment may have been like many thousands of years ago. Most have been dated to the Pleistocene era, between 130, 000 and…...
France's 17th-century Mazarine Library houses 600, 000 works
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (655+ words) Yann Sordet, director of the Mazarine Library and the Library of the Institut de France, stated that the Mazarine Library " founded in the 17th century by Cardinal Mazarin, minister of King Louis XIV of France " is the oldest public library in…...
Ancient Femur Hints at Early European Bipedalism
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (412+ words) Analysis of a 7. 2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity to walk upright on two legs - a distinctly human trait known as bipedalism - existed in pre-human ancestors at least one million years…...
New Mexico fossil sparks new questions about Tyrannosaur origins
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (174+ words) NEW MEXICO(KRQE) "Did a T. rex relative roam the Land of Enchantment millions of years ago? A new discovery out of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science suggests it did. "You're looking at the shin bone of a tyrannosaur,…...
A "lost world" beneath the North Sea was once full of forests
13+ hour, 18+ min ago (491+ words) New research led by the University of Warwick shows that forests were already growing across Doggerland, a now-submerged landmass beneath the North Sea, far earlier than scientists once believed. The findings indicate this lost landscape may have served as a…...
10 books that will make you see dinosaurs differently
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (239+ words) 10 best dinosaur books, according to a paleontologist Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into By Steve Brusatte edited by Brianne Kane The Dinosaur Heresies: New…...
Only one group of dinosaurs survived an asteroid impact. You can probably see them from your window
16+ hour, 5+ min ago (1499+ words) The dinosaurs at your window: How birds survived the asteroid that killed all other dinosaurs How a few unique traits helped modern-style birds'the last living dinosaurs'survive the asteroid apocalypse that took out T. rex and other mighty beasts By Kendra Pierre-Louis,…...
This Triassic Crocodile Sat Misidentified in a Yale Basement for 75 Years. It Was a New Species
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (644+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology A newly identified Triassic predator shows crocodiles diversified long before they conquered the water. Sometime around 210 million years ago, in what is now the badlands of New Mexico, a mudslide froze an ancient ecosystem in stone. Two…...
Scientists Found a Fossil Along a River in China, and It Seems to Have Solved a 160-Million-Year-Old Mystery
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (437+ words) A 550-million-year-old sponge is filling a massive gap in the history of early life on Earth. What did scientists uncover? This gap has now been partially bridged. A team led by geobiologist Shuhai Xiao, in collaboration with the University of…...