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Story time at Field Museum lets youngsters explore the world of dinosaurs

A partnership between the Chicago Public Library and the Field Museum allows a group of kids to experience an up-close look at the history of dinosaurs and fossils.

Chicago Sun-Times

Glaciers have existed on Earth for at least 60 million years – far longer than previously thought

Glaciers have been present somewhere on Earth for at least 60 million years, a period stretching back almost to the time of the dinosaurs. That’s the key finding of our new research, which pushes the date when the planet was last glacier-free back by at least 26 million years.

The Conversation

Dinosaur show from Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist is coming to Thornbury

The show caught the attention of the judges on Britain's Got Talent

Bristol Post

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For the first time ever, we have a complete skull description of a true fossil giant wombat

The place we call Australia today was in many ways vastly different 80,000 years ago.

The Conversation

Researchers discover 'true giant wombat' megafauna species fossil in central Queensland

Researchers discover "true giant wombats" weighing up to 130 kilograms that lived in central Queensland about 80,000 years ago.

ABC News

Are we in the Anthropocene? Scientists vote on sites that may mark the beginning of an epoch

We've been discussing the "Anthropocene" for more than two decades, but it's not an official geological term. A group of scientists are voting this week to try and change that.

ABC News

Family trio of fossil hunters behind rare discovery in outback Queensland

In remote outback Queensland, new fossils are being unearthed "every day", but it's not always palaeontologists who are making the most astonishing discoveries.

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Looking back at a time when Tasmania's ancient reptiles and dinosaurs packed a bite

Meet Tasmaniosaurus, the ancient reptile fossil found in West Hobart.

ABC News

The sixth mass extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us

Species are going extinct at an unusually high rate. Our efforts now will prevent a future too ghastly to contemplate, says Corey Bradshaw

Newsroom.co.nz

What archaeologists discovered about climate change in prehistoric England

Gradual changes to landscape and vegetation are not what future generations can expect

The Guardian - UK

Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid wiped them out, landmark study reveals

This stability may have actually hindered their survival in face of the cataclysm

The Independent UK

Dinosaurs were in their prime before asteroid downfall, study finds

Scientists have long debated why non-bird dinosaurs became extinct, while some mammals survived

Evening Standard

Dinosaurs were in their prime before asteroid downfall, study finds - OLD

Scientists have long debated why non-bird dinosaurs became extinct, while some mammals survived.

The Independent UK

Oldest-known DNA reveals life in a much warmer Greenland 2 million years ago (including, surprise, mastodons)

The research revealed an ancient ecosystem unlike anything seen on Earth today, including traces of mastodons and horseshoe crabs roaming the Arctic.

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Oldest DNA Reveals Life in Greenland 2 Million Years Ago

Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it’s a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the…

The Independent UK

Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago

Scientists have discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland

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A Trio Of Friends Went Looking For Fossils In Outback Qld Found A 100 Million-YO Sea Dinosaur

It'll be the first known head and body of this species of dinosaur to be held together in a museum!

The Independent UK

Ankylosaurs battled each other as much as they fought off T. rex

The scientists found new evidence for how armoured dinosaurs used their famous tail clubs.

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WA's 'shark graveyard' offers glimpse of prehistoric monster, the megalodon shark

A massive tooth recently uncovered in a biodiversity survey off the WA coast offers a rare glimpse of the megalodon shark, an ancient ocean predator that had no peer.

ABC News

Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil discovered in outback Queensland

Palaeontologists who visited a remote property to investigate reports of a large fossil have confirmed a discovery dating back 100 million years.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: citizenship cancellations ruled illegal, breast milk trade warning, ‘Rosetta Stone’ of dinosaur finds

In today’s newsletter: controversial withdrawal of Australian rights from overseas prisoners is reversed; Morocco stun Spain in World Cup

The Guardian - AU

Queensland graziers unearth 100m-year-old plesiosaur remains likened to Rosetta Stone

Amateur fossil hunters find skull connected to body of marine giant elasmosaur for the first time in Australia

The Independent UK

Yellowstone supervolcano has much more magma than previously thought, study finds

‘This is about getting a clearer image of what is down there and what has been down there for a while’

Chicago Sun-Times

The Field’s Sue lends a hand to paleontologists studying why T. Rex arms are so short

T. rex’s arm will be CT scanned Wednesday at the University of Chicago.

The Guardian - UK

Making sense of Cop15: what to look out for in Montreal

Everything you need to know about the once-in-a-decade chance to stop the loss of biodiversity – and how you can help

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