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Around 2 billion years ago, Oklo became a natural nuclear reactor beneath Africa, and its radioactive remains are still there

Long before forests spread across the continents, before the first animals walked on land and even before the age of dinosaurs, a remarkable process was unfolding beneath Earth's surface. Deep underground, a series of natural nuclear reactions began inside unusually rich uranium deposits, releasing energy in cycles over an immense…

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Germany's fossil-rich limestone has revealed prehistoric giants for centuries, but scientists have now uncovered a previously unknown flying reptile that lived 150 million years ago

Scientists in Germany have identified a new ancient flying reptile species. This nearly complete fossil dates back approximately 150 million years. The creature, named Laueropterus vitriolus, had a wingspan of about one meter. Its preservation offers insights into ancient environments and prehistoric animal communities. This discovery highlights ongoing learning about…

The Times of India

‘Gus’ the T. rex becomes most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold for $50M

The 67-million-year-old skeleton is billed as one of the world's largest and most complete specimens

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T rex fossil ‘Gus’ sells for $50.1m at New York auction, setting new record

Skeleton judged to be one of the largest and most complete ever unearthed was excavated on a ranch in South Dakota

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Sam Neill And The OG Jurassic Park Cast Sang Blackbird Together, And The Video Is So Touching

I'm not crying, you're crying.

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Sale of multimillion-dollar T rex skeleton is big headache for scientists

Palaeontologists warn before auction at Sotheby’s in New York that super-rich collectors are harming research

The Guardian - UK

Sam Neill was a warm, wry and unselfish star who twinkled so others could shine

His unshowy gifts, which discreetly carried arthouse drama and blockbuster adventures alike, never sucked a movie’s oxygen in to his own performance

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Richard E. Grant, Cillian Murphy, Kylie Minogue and more mourn the death of Sam Neill

Fans and fellow actors are mourning the passing of Sam Neill, who died after being diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

The Independent UK

Sam Neill obituary

Versatile character actor who gained international star status with standout performances in Jurassic Park and The Piano

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Venturing into the land of dinosaurs

I have been exploring dinosaur country this past week, otherwise known as Isan, or to be more specific in my case, northern Chaiyaphum.

Bangkok Post

A giant armadillo relative found in Argentina may have helped feed some of South America's earliest humans 20,000 years ago

Scientists working in Argentina have come across something that could shake up what we know about how early humans reached South America. Cut marks found on the bones of a giant, extinct armadillo relative suggest people were already living there roughly 20,000 years ago, way earlier than most researchers used…

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The real-life 'Hobbits' survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may have drove them away

For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of Flores in Indonesia. Then, around 50,000 years ago, this tiny hominin known as Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the hobbit because of its small stature, disappeared entirely, leaving behind one of the most puzzling…

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Meet the Denisovans: Scientists finally reveal the face of a 400,000-year-old human species

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our closest extinct relatives, yet almost nobody knew what they actually looked like. Unlike Neanderthals, whose skeletons have been uncovered across Europe and western Asia, Denisovans were represented by only…

The Times of India

Man from 100,000 years ago may be earliest victim of stabbing in face

Man likely survived stabbing and healed for a period before his death

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Kate's nod to daughter Princess Charlotte during visit to London children's hospital

The Princess of Wales met staff, patients and families at Evelina London Children’s Hospital on Monday

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Rare Neanderthal baby fossil reveals our ancient relatives may have begun life much like modern humans

The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from adults and older children have revealed the distinctive features that set these ancient relatives apart, yet remains from unborn babies are extraordinarily scarce. That has made it difficult to determine when…

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Mongolia's 120-million-year-old giant footprints reveal a forgotten dinosaur world

For decades, Mongolia's reputation in dinosaur research has rested largely on its spectacular Late Cretaceous fossils. Famous skeletons from the Gobi Desert have provided some of the most important discoveries in palaeontology, while older dinosaur ecosystems remained far less understood. That imbalance is beginning to change.

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–320°F review – join Cleopatra, Faust and the Pied Piper on a zany odyssey

Hideki Noda’s spectacular vision of villainous biotech and bone conduction is full of dazzling coups but gets bogged down in its earnest message

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Those Rumors About Hitler And The Minions Aren’t Going Away

We're going to need a better answer than this.

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Australia's living dinosaur tree survived 90 million years in a secret canyon

A tree species known only from fossils dating back roughly 90 million years has turned out to be very much alive. In 1994, a New South Wales park ranger rappelled into a narrow sandstone canyon in the Wollemi National Park and stumbled upon a small grove of strange-looking conifers. Botanists…

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Buried for 1.8 million years: This ancient elephant tooth was finally found by an 11-year-old on a UK beach

A routine family outing along the Suffolk coast turned into an unexpected encounter with Britain's distant prehistoric past when an 11-year-old boy noticed an unusual object lying close to the water's edge. At first glance, it looked a little different from the countless stones scattered across the shoreline, yet its…

The Independent UK

A dinosaur fossil sat forgotten in a drawer since 1985 until scientists realized what it was

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer

The Times of India

Antarctica's oldest known dinosaur fossil was hiding in a museum drawer for 40 years

For years, it sat unnoticed among thousands of geological specimens, catalogued and stored without attracting much attention. The fossil had been collected during an expedition to Antarctica in the mid-1980s and then quietly placed within a museum collection, where it remained for nearly four decades.

The Independent UK

At the Great American State Fair, you can find a dinosaur's rib cage. Unity is another matter

The Great American State Fair has kicked off on the National Mall in Washington

The Times of India

166-million-year-old Jurassic dinosaur highway discovered beneath a British quarry

A routine day at a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire has led to one of Britain's most significant dinosaur discoveries in decades. Hidden beneath layers of clay, hundreds of fossilised footprints have emerged from a landscape that existed around 166 million years ago, when the region lay beside a warm, shallow…

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