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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

Evening Standard

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…

The Times of India

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.

The Times of India

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

Cinemablend

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…

The Times of India

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 Times of India

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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 Independent UK

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 Times of India

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 Independent UK

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…

The Times of India

Discovery of prehistoric female-only cemetery changes what we know about early human society

Evidence suggests very early development of prehistoric female cultural identity

The Independent UK

Lost world beneath New Zealand cave reveals fossils of birds that disappeared a million years ago

New Zealand's wildlife is often viewed through the lens of the last few thousand years. Fossil deposits from relatively recent periods have provided detailed records of the birds that inhabited the islands before human settlement, while much older discoveries have offered glimpses into ecosystems that existed millions of years earlier.…

The Times of India

How The Dinosaurs' VFX helped audiences travel across vast spans of time

Lux Aeterna explains its cinematic approach to natural history storytelling.

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The Guardian - US

‘Life has always managed to crawl through’: docuseries takes us back to mass extinction events

Co-creator of Walking with Dinosaurs returns with Surviving Earth, a blockbuster new series that shows ‘how life bounced back’ from deadly events throughout history

The Times of India

Ohio residents keep finding mysterious round rocks in their backyards; they're actually 360-million-year-old fossils in disguise

If you live in Ohio and have ever spotted a strangely round, heavy rock in your garden or along a creek bed, one that looks too smooth and too symmetrical to belong there, you are not imagining things. Residents across the state, particularly around Columbus, have been puzzling over these…

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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have created a vast underground habitat for life that lasted 8 million years

The asteroid impact that triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs may also have created one of Earth's most enduring habitats for life.

The Times of India

What looked like simple red stains turned out to be Britain’s oldest cave art from 17,100 years ago

Inside a limestone cave on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, eleven parallel horizontal lines of red pigment have been sitting on a cave wall for roughly 17,100 years. They were first noticed by scientists in 1912, declared a remarkable example of Palaeolithic cave art, then reclassified as a natural…

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The Guardian - UK

Striped rock dismissed as natural in 1928 reclassified as UK’s oldest cave art

Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock art

The Independent UK

Monster 80-million-year-old fossil found by boy, 12, who plans to display it at Kansas county fair

The Kansas preteen has spent at least 30 hours cleaning the fossil, which he plans to show at the Sedgwick County Fair in July

The Guardian - US

‘Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city’: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles

La Brea Tar Pits – the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world – gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years

The Independent UK

Scientists discover new marine T-rex that was twice the size of great whites and ‘meaner than any mosasaur’

Researchers say species had finely serrated teeth and was formidable marine predator

The Times of India

When David Attenborough met Prince George, one giant shark tooth stole the moment

A prehistoric shark tooth gifted by Sir David Attenborough to Prince George at Kensington Palace captivated the world. This massive fossil, from the extinct Otodus megalodon, offered a glimpse into ancient oceans and sparked a brief international dispute over its origin. The image's enduring appeal lies in its blend of…

The Guardian - UK

Tentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceans

A new exhibition, Jurassic Oceans, showcases the fearsome creatures that lurked below the surface – and offers a stark warning about the impact of warming waters on marine ecosystems today

The Independent UK

New study explains why T rex had such tiny arms: ‘The head took over’

Researchers say giant head adaptations in dinosaurs started in areas with gigantic prey

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