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Largest, most intact stegosaurus fossil ever found sells for $44.6m

The dinosaur remains, which measure 3.4 metres tall and 8.2 metres long, show evidence that it had arthritis

The Guardian - UK

Dinosaur Skeleton Breaks Auction Record With $44.6 Mn Sale In New York

The largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found, nicknamed Apex, sold for a record breaking $44.6 million at auction in New York on Wednesday, Sotheby's said.

International Business Times

‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden

It has giddying cliffs, three-billion-year-old rocks, a prehistoric forest – and a giant bronze dinosaur called Fern. Our writer hurtles back through millennia as the beloved museum’s five-year revamp comes to fruition

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Little and large show: Natural History Museum displays new dinosaurs

The new gardens will double as a living laboratory

Evening Standard

Australian Fossilized Amber Reveals A 42 Million Year-Old Secret

Australian Amber has preserved ancient life forms in incredible detail — allowing researchers to uncover a 42 million year old secret.

Inverse

Sir David Attenborough's new wildlife series Mammals debuts on US TV tonight

Each episode of Sir David Attenborough's Mammals explores a different environment: Dark, Water, Cold, Heat, Forest and The New Wild

WhatToWatch

Apex: Largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found to fetch millions at auction

Sale of the 150-million-year-old fossil could draw criticism from scientists who want them to be preserved in museums.

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Stegosaurus Skeleton To Fetch Millions At New York Auction

The largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found is expected to fetch millions of dollars at auction in New York next week, likely fueling objections from paleontologists.

International Business Times

Dinosaur unearthed on Isle of Wight identified as new plant-eating species

Comptonatus chasei roamed island 125m years ago and is most complete dinosaur fossil found in UK in a century

The Guardian - UK

New species unearthed on island reveals more about dinosaurs that roamed Britain

Comptonatus chasei would have been a hefty dinosaur, the same size as an American bison

The Independent UK

‘Most complete dinosaur’ in a century unearthed in the Isle of Wight

Comptonatus chasei was a plant-eater about the size of a big male American bison, scientists said.

The Independent UK

Giant swamp creature with ‘huge fangs’ top predator before dinosaurs – study

Gaiasia jennyae lived 40 million years before dinosaurs first evolved.

The Independent UK

Fangs and toilet seat-shaped head: giant salamander-like fossil found in Namibia

About 2.5 metres long, creature was an apex predator 280m years ago, before age of dinosaurs, say scientists

The Guardian - UK

Fossils show huge salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs existed before the dinosaurs

Scientists have identified a giant salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs that likely ruled waters 280 million years ago

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Scientists discover huge creature with toilet seat-shaped head was top predator before dinosaurs

The creature had huge fangs and a skull over 2ft long

Broadcasting & Cable

Stopping Newspapers From Going the Way of the Dinosaurs (B+C Guest Blog)

Allowing broadcast cross-ownership could give flagging news orgs a boost

The Guardian - UK

The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past – photo essay

Richard Forrest has spent half a century combing beaches for ammonites and other fossils. Along the Dorset coast, the constant shift of earth, rocks and sand continually reveals fresh evidence of life millions of years ago

The Independent UK

An Arizona museum tells the stories of ancient animals through their fossilized poop

A new museum in northern Arizona features the fossilized feces of prehistoric animals

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Space

It's International Asteroid Day, and astronomers have much to celebrate

This year's events highlight the upcoming Hera mission and an Arizona-based project that uses off-the-shelf security cameras to scan meteors from roofs of schools, colleges and sometimes even private homes.

The Guardian - UK

Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

In 1974, the fossilised bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton disproved a Darwinian theory – and what links her to the Beatles?

Salon

Mass extinction: A choice we can reverse

To prevent mass extinction, we need to protect 30% of Earth by 2030. Recent research indicates where to start

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: A kitchen ‘pest’ that predates dinosaurs

Langstone, Hampshire: It’s remarkable to think that silverfish – one of which has dropped off my cabbage – have been around for more than 400m years

The Independent UK

‘Remarkably preserved’ 500-million-year-old sea creature discovered

New findings have allowed scientists to document features in the extinct animal never seen before.

The Independent UK

Fossil of child reveals oldest known case of Down syndrome

The Neanderthal child was nicknamed ‘Tina’

Reason

Is "Law Trapped In Amber"?

Lesson for Chief Justice Roberts from Jurassic Park.

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