Miners digging for gemstones recently found another kind of treasure when they stumbled upon the fossilized remains of an ancient “sea monster” in Alberta, Canada. Ammolite miners working on a mine near Lethbridge last month discovered a mosasaur, likely of… Read More ›
Scientists are giving us a realistic look at a new dinosaur discovered in Parana, Brazil. The new species is a tiny killer, standing at a little more than 3-feet tall. It’s a carnivorous cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor…. Read More ›
DENVER – Several weeks ago, construction workers digging near a Denver retirement home made a startling discovery: dinosaur bones. Paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science quickly got to work identifying the partial skeleton found in Highlands Ranch,… Read More ›
British scientists are about to undertake one of their biggest dinosaur hunts in decades. They are joining US and Dutch institutions in exploring what is expected to be a treasure trove of fossils in the “Badlands” of Wyoming. The US… Read More ›
While we haven’t been able to pull a Jurassic Park yet, since resurrecting dinosaurs from the blood sucked by mosquitoes trapped in amber is kind of problematic, paleontologists have discovered a fossil that is one sci-fi movie short of a… Read More ›
A malignant tumor found in a 240 million-year-old turtle bone shows that cancer has been plaguing living things since the Triassic Period. SARAH PRUITT A 240 million-year-old fossilized leg bone has yielded evidence of what might be one of the… Read More ›
“We don’t just have a skeleton,” said one of the nodosaur researchers involved. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.” You can’t even see its bones, yet scientists are hailing it as perhaps the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever… Read More ›
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom went above and beyond to make sure audiences felt the emotional impact of a brachiosaurus’ death. The moment was so impactful, it became a popular meme and was one of the most talked about beats of… Read More ›