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The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

A new study has found that the T

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150-million-year-old giant long-necked dinosaur fossils found in Spain

Spanish paleontologists found Diplodocus fossils in Teruel, Spain. These remains are the first evidence of this dinosaur outside North America. The fossils date back approximately 150 million years to the Late Jurassic Period. Anatomical study and evolutionary analyses confirmed the identification of the specimen. This discovery suggests giant sauropods moved…

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A 66-million-year-old gastropod fossil was found at a 5,000-year-old settlement in Ankara

A 66-million-year-old gastropod fossil was unearthed at an Ankara archaeological site. This ancient creature lived during the Tethys Sea's final phases. Researchers are investigating how the fossil arrived at the Kulhoyuk settlement. The discovery connects the site's history to a much older geological past. This finding offers insights into the…

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Scientists perplexed as iconic dinosaur thought unique to America is found in Spain

Discovery offers compelling evidence of dinosaurs moving between North America and Europe

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Fossilized 10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found by California scientist

Molar from large mammal that once lived in North America is in ‘immaculate condition’ after discovery in Bay Area

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Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye

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One giant step: first known adult T rex footprints found in North Dakota

The 23ft-long trackway, consisting of four three-toed footprints, two left and two right, date from 66.5m years ago

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Meet Cliff Linster, whose Jurassic “squid” sat 30 years before being named a new species

A remarkably broad belemnite fossil discovered in Wyoming has been identified as a new species. This ancient squid relative, named Wyoteuthis linsterorum, lived around 160 million years ago. The chunky fossil represents a rare surviving branch of an ancient lineage. Researchers used two specimens to formally describe the previously unknown…

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Scientist finds 10,000-year-old mastodon molar while surveying California creek for threatened frogs

While investigating a creek for frogs, a scientist stumbled upon a remarkable ancient mastodon tooth, estimated to be over ten thousand years old. Paleontologists have confirmed its belonging to a long-extinct species of Pacific mastodon. The fossil will soon be analyzed at Stanford University to determine its precise age, establishing…

The Times of India

One of science’s biggest mysteries could be solved by fossilised feather in dinosaur dung

By studying this feather, researchers have found clues that help explain why birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction

The Independent UK

The UK Coast Is Hiding A 454-Million-Year-Old Supervolcano That Once Had Northern Europe Covered In Ash

Scientists studying ancient rock samples uncovered something extraordinary beneath England’s east coast: the remains of a massive supervolcano that erupted hundreds of millions of years ago. The volcano stretched at least 65 kilometers beneath The Wash, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, and its ancient eruption sent volcanic ash across large parts of…

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Early Europeans resorted to cannibalism several times over thousands of years, cave fossils reveal

Cannibalism was found concentrated in three time periods

The Independent UK

Copenhagen’s £200m underground museum opens in 2027 with dinosaurs, 14m specimens and eight galleries

Copenhagen’s new £200 million Natural History Museum will open on March 6, 2027, featuring eight immersive underground galleries and a collection of 14 million specimens. Visitors can explore dinosaur skeletons, 3D exhibits and the spectacular Ocean Hall, as the museum combines historic Botanical Garden buildings with striking new underground architecture…

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Want to borrow a dinosaur fossil? Try California’s one-of-a-kind taxidermy lending library

A natural history museum lets residents take home 1,400 specimens, from bobcats and beetles to snakes in jars

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Meet Greta Ramirez-Guerrero: The Canadian PhD student who helped reveal a 450-million-year-old jellyfish relative hiding in Quebec rocks

Greta Ramirez-Guerrero was studying fragments of ancient life that had survived in Quebec rock for roughly 450 million years when she encountered an unusual problem: the animal she was examining had almost nothing that should have fossilised well. Paleocanna tentaculum was a soft-bodied relative of modern jellyfish, shaped more like…

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Abundant common fossils don’t need to be protected

Letters: Museums have countless examples of the common fossils from these Lower Jurassic rocks, says the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre’s Phil Davidson

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12 million years ago, tiny dog-like animals crossed Nebraska as volcanic ash buried hundreds of animals; scientists have now found their footprints

At Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park in northern Nebraska, researchers have spent decades excavating a mass graveyard created when volcanic ash swept across the Great Plains roughly 12 million years ago. The eruption occurred in what is now southwestern Idaho, about 1,000 miles from the Nebraska site, but fine…

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14 fossilised teeth found in Egypt’s ancient shark graveyard reveal five extinct species from the age of dinosaurs

Fossilised shark teeth from Egypt's Western Desert reveal prehistoric ocean life. Scientists discovered teeth from five extinct shark species in the Abu-Tartur Plateau region. These ancient predators inhabited warm tropical seas during the Late Cretaceous period. The findings expand the known record of shark diversity in North Africa. This discovery…

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TV tonight: the search for the murderer of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee

A documentary gains impressive access to the detectives who have been hunting for the killer since 2019. Plus: Mark Gatiss returns as a bookish postwar sleuth. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Scientists found a 4-million-year-old baby tapir in Spain, the most complete juvenile skeleton of its kind ever found in Europe

At the Camp dels Ninots site in Caldes de Malavella, near Girona in northeastern Spain, researchers have recovered a remarkably complete skeleton of a young tapir that died roughly 4 million years ago, when the region was still home to a humid subtropical landscape surrounding an ancient volcanic lake. The…

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Northern Territory’s Karlu Karlu conservation reserve recognised as a rare International Dark Sky Sanctuary

Sacred site joins 23 other sites worldwide known for their exceptionally clear night sky, free from light pollution

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The Guardian view on the export of fossils: they deserve national treasure status

Editorial: Scientific specimens are being sold to foreign museums or snapped up by the super-rich. They should have the same legal protections as works of art

The Times of India

Britain's best Jurassic fossil collection was sold to Abu Dhabi after UK museums could not raise the money to buy it

For decades, Dorset-based fossil hunter Chris Moore combed the cliffs and beaches around Lyme Regis and Charmouth, part of England's UNESCO-listed Jurassic Coast, gradually assembling a collection of 318 specimens spanning ichthyosaurs, fish and crustaceans, including fossils that could potentially represent species new to science. Under the region's fossil collecting…

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"End of Oak Street" does pastiche right

In a studio culture obsessed with nostalgia, David Robert Mitchell's dino thriller knows what we truly want

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