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Idaho Falls event pairs 'Jurassic Park' with a real paleontologist
7+ hour, 35+ min ago (389+ words) Released in 1993, "Jurassic Park" revolutionized cinema with its blend of groundbreaking CGI and practical animatronics. The film's imagery remains iconic, from the terrifying T-Rex breakout to the awe-inspiring first glimpse of a Brachiosaurus. The Museum of Idaho and Idaho State…...
Mosasaurus comparison
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Mosasaurus | Prehistoric Planet
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (103+ words) Phillip Hamilton " 6 minutes ago Phillip Hamilton " 7 minutes ago Phillip Hamilton " about 3 hours ago Phillip Hamilton " about 4 hours ago Zach Sweat " about 6 hours ago Zach Sweat " 4 days ago Zach Sweat " 5 days ago Phillip Hamilton " 3 days ago Adam Downer " 9 years ago Don…...
From anal ventilators to boiling, toxic fart machines: 10 weirdest and deadliest bottoms on the planet
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (444+ words) From explosive sea cucumbers to beetles that spray boiling toxic fluid from their bums, the world of wildlife is full of unexpected adaptations. These butts aren't just weird "they're life-saving We might lead from the front, but our back ends…...
Smilodon comparison
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Body Count’s Ernie C on Evolution and Influence
9+ hour, 52+ min ago (948+ words) COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOUB) " Rock and hip-hop have shared a close relationship for decades, surging into the mainstream in the "90s with the rise of nu-metal. In 1990, however, a more literal collision of rap and rock occurred when rapper Ice-T teamed up…...
Scientists solve 75-million-year-old dinosaur ‘murder mystery’
10+ hour, 22+ min ago (716+ words) Visualization of a tyrannosaur scavenging on a larger conspecific. (Josephine Nielsen / Aarhus University via SWNS) Tyrannosaurus rex was the ultimate cannibal " feeding on the carcasses of dead relatives, new research reveals. While tyrannosaurs are often portrayed as fearsome apex predators,…...
“Eat Like a Dinosaur” Week Brings Prehistoric Fun — and Flavor — to Bossier-Shreveport
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (538+ words) If you've ever wondered what it might be like to dine like a dinosaur, next week offers the perfect chance. In celebration of a special traveling exhibit at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, locally owned restaurants across the area are…...
New Evidence Confirms Long-Necked Dinosuars Were Vegetarians
7+ hour, 18+ min ago (153+ words) In a monumental find this June, scientists revealed the first direct fossil evidence confirming that sauropod dinosaurs'those iconic long-necked giants'were true vegetarians. A fossil, complete with preserved gut contents, shattered the centuries'old assumption that these behemoths might not strictly graze…...
Gigantic Prehistoric Dragonfly-Like Insects May Not Owe Their Size to Oxygen: Study
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (510+ words) Long thought to be fueled by increased atmospheric oxygen concentration, enormous griffinflies from the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, may have grown large for other reasons, according to new research led by University of Pretoria paleontologist Edward Snelling. Gigantic griffinfly…...