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Dusting Dinosaurs and Elephants: How Specialists Keep the Museum’s Largest Treasures Spotless
Smithsonian Magazine· 20 hours agoThis makes sense from a storage perspective: The Smithsonian houses over 154 million objects, the...
35 Years Later, the Remains Known as ‘Chimney Doe’ Have a Name and a Face
New York Times· 17 hours agoA skeleton found in the chimney of a Wisconsin music store in 1989 has been identified, relaunching...
Meet the Quetzalcoatlus, Enormous Prehistoric Flying Lizards
My Modern Met· 2 days ago67 million years ago, a reptile the size of a fighter jet once roamed the skies.
The fossils being formed today will show how humankind disrupted life on Earth
Phys.org· 4 days agoFossils are an essential record of life on Earth that demonstrate long periods of stability,...
Here's how one paleontologist got DC an official dinosaur
NBC Washington· 16 hours agoPaleontologist Peter Kranz doesn't necessarily expect to be a famous scientist ... although he...
Fossil captures starfish splitting itself in two – showing this has been happening for 155 million...
The Conversation· 2 days agoThe starfish, or asteroid, is part of a group of animals called the echinoderms or spiny skinned animals that also includes sea lilies, sea urchins and sea cucumbers. Starfish are among the ...
A Major Donation of Fossils Will Help Rebuild the National Museum of Brazil
The New York Observer· 6 days agoBurkhard Pohl, the Swiss-German owner of one of the world’s biggest collections of private fossils,...
People Are Revealing The Creepy Or Downright Disturbing Discoveries They Made In A Friend's Home,...
BuzzFeed· 9 hours ago"I used his kitchen tongs to pick everything up, threw them into bags, and hid them away. I take...
Study reveals when the first warm-blooded dinosaurs roamed Earth
AccuWeather· 21 hours agoVisitors look at the skeleton of a gigantic Triceratops over 66 million years old, named "Big John,"...
More Than 1,000 Fossils, Including Rare Dinosaurs, Gifted to Brazil's National Museum Following Fire
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoSparked by an improperly installed air conditioning unit, the fire closed down the Rio de Janeiro institution—the oldest museum in Brazil. Among the fossils gifted to the ...