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Students Walked Past This Rock for 20 Years. It Turned Out to Host 66 Dinosaur Footprints From the Jurassic Period
A paleontologist studied the 200-million-year-old prints that had been hiding in plain sight, then discovered even more tracks in another rock sitting in a nearby parking lot ...
'Fearsome' New Leopard-Sized Predator From 30 Million Years Ago Revealed
The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...
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Amateur paleontologist finds nearly complete 70-million-year-old massive Titanosaur while walking his dog
The landslide had exposed the edge of a cliff where Boschetto, an amateur paleontologist, noticed large bones. His trained ...
Fossil nerds and speculators help make the Field Museum's Mazon Creek collection world-famous
Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — ...
For 20 years, this school had no idea there was a dinosaur fossil right outside
"They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself. Some were thinking that it was a replica," Australian ...
This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
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Ancient dinosaur footprint dating back 100 million years discovered near coastal town
A massive dinosaur footprint of the Iguanodon species, which dates back over 100 million years, has been found on a beach in England, news agency SWNS reported. Paleontologist Joe Thompson, a ...
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Paleontologist rates "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" dinosaurs
Paleontologist Dave Hone rates the realism of every "Jurassic Park" movie. He talks about how the T. rex hunted down its prey, how the Gallimimus outran predators, and what Velociraptors actually ...
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Turn Into a Paleontologist at PaleoFest
The Burpee Museum of Natural History’s PaleoFest is back and is even bigger than before. It’ll have workshops and fun activities for families, lectures for science enthusiasts, and a new ...
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A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...