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03/06/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Construction site turned dinosaur dig: Workers unearth 68-million-year-old Triceratops fossil

What started out as a simple construction job turned into a mission to find, document and retrieve the remains of a prehistoric giant. Builders tasked with excavating a site near a retirement community in Denver, Colorado, stumbled upon a partial skeleton, which was later identified by paleontologists as that of a large adult Triceratops. According […]

02/23/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

10,000 year old “weapons factory” discovered by archeologists alongside remains of a wooly mammoth, whose tusks were used as raw materials

Paleontologists working on the island of Kotelny, a now-uninhabited Siberian island administered by Russia and located within the Arctic circle, have discovered a “weapons factory” where early humans took shards of mammoth tusks and sharpened them into knives and spears. Not only that, but this “weapons factory” was discovered right beside the remains of a felled […]

01/01/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Swedish scientists compile a “microfossil atlas” to help NASA learn more about Martian microfossils

Scientists looking for signs of life on Mars may need to take a deep dive first – literally. According to a study published in Frontiers in Earth Science, the upcoming Mars expeditions by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) – both of which have the specific aim to […]

12/28/2019 / By Michael Alexander

“Thai”-rannosaurus rex? Fossils unearthed in Thailand reveal link to fearsome therapod

Two distant relatives of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex have been identified in Thailand, according to a new report. In an article published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, paleontologists Adun Samathi and Martin Sander of the University of Bonn in Germany identified previously unrecognized fossils as those of megaraptors – cousins to the famed Jurassic Park predator. “We were […]

12/26/2019 / By Michael Alexander

A jaw-dropping find: High schooler from Iowa discovers a prehistoric mastodon jaw bone

Imagine stumbling upon a fossil from the Pleistocene era during a trek at a farm. That’s exactly what happened to a teenager who, while hunting for arrowheads, discovered a 30-inch-long fossilized mastodon jaw complete with teeth, on a farm in southern Iowa. According to paleontologists from the University of Iowa who analyzed the fossil, the […]

11/04/2019 / By Tracey Watson

Ape-like fossil NOT a direct ancestor: Paleontologists challenge claims that two-million-year-old ape-like fossil belongs to human lineage

In its opening verse, the Bible makes a simple but profound claim: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Those who challenge that claim and insist that we got here not through creation but by evolution have been claiming for decades that we descended from ape-like ancestors. Proponents of the evolution theory […]

10/18/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Researchers discover “beautiful nightmare” crab with giant eyes and the shell of a lobster

Imagine a crab with a lobster’s carapace, a shrimp’s mouth, and bulging eyes, plus the ability to swim. This stuff of seafood dreams and Lovecraftian nightmares is called the chimera crab, and it prowled the seas of the ancient Earth. Its discoverers dubbed it Callichimaera perplexa, “perplexing beautiful chimera” in Latin. The name came from the chimera […]

06/22/2019 / By Edsel Cook

AMAZING discovery: Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin impressions found in tiny raptor tracks 120 million years old

Researchers just struck paleontological gold in South Korea: They dug up a set of dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period. They retrieved samples of highly preserved skin impressions of the long-dead animal. They identified the ichnogenus of the dinosaur to be Minisauripus chuanzhuensis. The smallest known theropod (dinosaurs with hollow bones and limbs with three toes), Minisauripus was […]

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