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Maryland's new dinosaur park near Laurel has been opened for public prospecting on just two Saturday afternoons so far, and already one of the visitors' finds is headed to the Smithsonian Institution. On Saturday, a 9-year-old girl from Annandale, Va.,...
Tags: Gabrielle Block, Peter Kranz, Baltimore, Fossil, Paleontology, Paleozoology, Dinosaur
According to the report, the tubular animal was the first organism with skeletal structure on Earth. It was an elliptic tube-shape animal with nothing in abdomen. The researchers said they found fossils of primitive seaweeds and primitive jellyfish belonging...
Tags: tubular animal, North Korea, Pyŏngyang, Organism, Environment, Paleontology, Fossil, Korean Central News Agency
Among the fossils recovered are a near complete skeleton of a gryposauraus, described as a duck-billed dinosaur on steroids; an ankylosaur, an armored creature resembling a low tank with a club on the end of its tail; and a pterosaur that Titus described...
Tags: Museum of Natural History, Scott Sampson, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Fossil, Morrison Formation, Falcarius, Paleontology, Dinosaur, Paleozoology
I really think this is more about the lack of journalism and accountability in the modern era of reporting news. The media jumped head first into the story, when a fossil was discovered in Germany. They called this fossil "IDA". It was being held as...
Tags: Monkey, scientist, ape, ida, link, evolution, discovery, msnbc, fox, cnn, fossil
A smaller, more agile cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been identified. The skull and a nearly complete skeleton of Alioramus altai was discovered in Mongolia in 2001, and has features that distinguish it from its more lumbering cousin. Unlike its...
Tags: Ballerina, T Rex, Dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, Alioramus altai, National Geographic, Fossil, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
This just in……Ida. The new missing link. It’s said that “This changes everything”. But how long has Ida actually be in human hands? Try over 25 years. What is stated to be a 47 million year old missing link was unveiled...
Tags: fossil, Ida, evolution, missing link
For Sir David Attenborough there was no doubt. “The link until now was missing...The missing link Attenborough was talking about was Ida, the beautifully preserved fossilised remains of an early primate that roamed part of Germany 47m years ago. Ida,...
Tags: fossil, ida, missing link, evolution
Less than 5 miles from the futuristic Dallas Cowboys football stadium, University of Texas at Arlington students are digging up fossils of prehistoric turtles, sharks, giant crocodiles and duck-billed dinosaurs that were bigger than trucks. The fossils...
In a region where oil-fueled fortunes have led to fanciful man-made islands, an indoor ski slope and competing plans for the world's tallest building, Qatar stands apart. The Qatar Science and Technology Park, set to open Monday, reflects a push by this...
Tags: fossil
National Science Foundation (NSF) scientists have turned up fossilized evidence of a prehistoric snake so big it could have snacked on today's giant anacondas. According to its NSF discoverers, the thankfully long-gone snake would have weighed about 2,500...