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An Ice Age Toad Sat Hidden in a Museum for 70 Years
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (360+ words) A researcher discovered a previously unknown amphibian that lived during the Ice Age in what is now Los Angeles. This extinct spadefoot toad species, named Spea labreae, is the first new amphibian species discovered from the La Brea Tar Pits....
190-year-old DNA reveals a hidden pangolin species
47+ min ago (325+ words) DNA from a nearly 190-year-old museum specimen has helped scientists confirm a distinct Himalayan pangolin species hiding in plain sight in Nepal and northern India. The discovery could give conservationists a powerful new way to trace illegally traded pangolin scales…...
Too Hot To Incubate? Nile Crocodiles Hatch On Their Own In French Reserve
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (299+ words) France’s heatwaves have produced an unusual outcome at a wildlife park, where 10 Nile crocodiles hatched without human assistance for the first time, the director of the reserve said on Wednesday. While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate in underground nests in…...
Left-handed people tend to be left-leaning, study finds
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (51+ words) Your political views are written in your hands: Left-handed people tend to be left-leaning, study finds Daily Mail Science & Tech News Your political views are written in your hands: Left–handed people tend to be left–leaning, study finds - See…...
Too hot to incubate: Nile crocodiles hatch on their own in French reserve
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (268+ words) Lyon (AFP) – France's heatwaves have produced an unusual outcome at a wildlife park, where 10 Nile crocodiles hatched without human assistance for the first time, the director of the reserve said on Wednesday. Issued on: 26/08/2026 - 13:15 While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate…...
How a megalodon tooth washed ashore in Sea Isle City is a 'human mystery,' paleontologist says
17+ hour, 9+ min ago (341+ words) A Pennsylvania family found a tooth from a megalodon, a prehistoric shark, in Sea Isle City this month, but how it got there remains a mystery. Above, megalodon teeth at the 2025 Sharks Tooth Festival in Florida. While finding a megalodon…...
Manchester Museum's iconic T-Rex Stan is moving for the first time over 20 years
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (947+ words) A new home for a big legend. Manchester Museum’s iconic T-Rex Stan is moving locations for the first time over 20 years. Stan, the famous Tyrannosaurus rex at the heart of Manchester Museum’s Fossils Gallery, is on the move from one…...
Weirdo Wednesday: J. Mascis Mumbles His Way Through "Classic" Dinosaur Jr. 120 Minutes Interview (1991)
9+ hour, 7+ min ago (188+ words) Glide Magazine Weirdo Wednesday: J. Mascis Mumbles His Way Through “Classic” Dinosaur Jr. 120 Minutes Interview (1991) Listening to J. Mascis in an interview can sometimes feel like an exercise in deciphering mumbles. But that’s part of the charm. The notoriously introverted Dinosaur…...
The State Parks With Fossil Beds You Can Walk Through
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (585+ words) Unlike most fossil sites, visitors don't simply view these fossils from a boardwalk or museum display. When water levels allow, they can walk directly across the exposed fossil bed, where countless corals, stromatoporoid sponges, brachiopods, bryozoans, gastropods, crinoids, and trilobites…...
Library caps off youth summer program with SpectrUM
9+ hour, 34+ min ago (568+ words) Arizona Duff with SpectrUM Discovery Summer of Science helps a young paleontologist prepare for making a fossil from a mold. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent) Reid Stenberg will be 2 next month and was a participant in making fossils last Wednesday on…...