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Rewriting the rules of luxury travel

"Pura Vida" isn't just a slogan

Salon · Mar 26, 2025

How weird fossils created by human garbage may baffle future civilisations

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 26, 2025

Bizarre ‘exquisitely preserved’ two-clawed dinosaur found in China

Loss of digits evolved independently in several dinosaur lineages, scientists say

The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2025

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José María Velasco review – proudly dull Mexican was wasted in wonderland

The 19th-century artist worked at a time when the Americas were a wonderland of discovery – but his unromantic, objective view of ancient rocky formations is sadly quite boring

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2025

James Monroe’s Oak Hill estate has historic roots. Some hope to preserve it as a Virginia park

One of President James Monroe's Virginia estates is up for sale and the family that owns the property wants to make it a state park

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2025

Prehistoric ideas about dinosaurs and children

Letters: Dr Nick Crumpton and Paul O’Shea respond to an article by Isabel Losada on teaching young people about ‘real, living’ animals, instead of dinosaurs and unicorns

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2025

‘It’s a history lesson’: fossil fish up to 16m years old found perfectly preserved in central NSW

Fossils retain microscopic structural features including stomach contents and provide first detailed evidence in Australia for fish called Osmeriformes

The Guardian - AU · Mar 17, 2025

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What happens under your eyelids when you blink? Try our kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2025

Beavers can help us adapt to climate change – here’s how

Beavers, those iron-toothed rodents with a talent for hydraulic engineering, can legally return to English river catchments after an absence of 500 years.

The Conversation · Mar 13, 2025

Richard Fortey obituary

Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum who was also a bestselling science writer and accomplished TV presenter

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead

Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025

Million-year-old face fossil sheds new light on ancient human migrations

Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old

The Independent UK · Mar 12, 2025

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain

Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers say

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2025

Trove Of Dinosaur Footprints Found At Australian School

A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, scientists said on Wednesday.

International Business Times · Mar 12, 2025

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AAP · Mar 12, 2025

Dinosaur secret unearthed after hiding in plain sight

A boulder donated by a mine has been kept at a school for decades before researchers discovered it featured a remarkable collection of dinosaur footprints.

The Guardian - AU · Mar 11, 2025

More than 60 dinosaur footprints found on boulder that sat at Queensland school for 20 years

One-square-metre slab has one of highest concentrations of fossilised prints documented in Australia, new analysis reveals

The Independent UK · Mar 11, 2025

New map of ‘mega ripples’ caused by dinosaur-killing asteroid helps recreate extinction event

Findings may help predict impact of future tsunamis and asteroid impacts, scientists say

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2025

A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World by Tom Phillips review – apocalypse not

A gag-filled doomscroll through the history of armageddon demonstrates that, for some, the end has always been nigh

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The National (Scotland) · Mar 6, 2025

Jurassic dinosaur fossil extracted from cliff in Scottish island

A FOSSIL first spotted in a Scottish island over 50 years ago has finally been extracted from the base of the cliff where it was found and,…

Inverse · Mar 1, 2025

30 Years Later, The Most Chaotic Jurassic Park Movie Forgot To Check The Source Material

You know what? Jurassic Park: Dominion would have made a great novel. Really! Here's why it didn't land as a movie, but is still worth revisiting for the subplots.

The Conversation · Feb 26, 2025

How poetry can help us understand mass extinction events

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass extinctions, ecosystems are placed under immense pressure, at above-average speeds. Here, the language changes from the commonplace to the exceptional.

The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2025

Why are dogs colour-blind and why do cats have pouches? Try our kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2025

Giant ‘megaraptor’ dinosaur species discovered in Australia

New study offers evidence of prehistoric animal movement between Australia and South America via Antarctica

The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2025

Study reveals one good thing from dinosaur extinction that let primates emerge

Study explains how seeds and fruits eventually became large food sources

The Independent UK · Feb 17, 2025

Rare Egyptian skull sheds light on ‘fearsome’ new 30-million-year-old leopard-sized predator

The species, known as Bastetodon and named for an Egyptian goddess, had sharp teeth and an incredibly powerful grip

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