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Saber-toothed cat once roamed Texas coast
Newsweek· 8 hours agoA prehistoric saber-toothed cat once roamed what is now the Gulf Coast of Texas, a "treasure" of a fossil has revealed. The fossil belongs to an...
What prehistoric creatures roamed Chicago?
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 2 days agoIf you want to see dinosaur bones in Chicago, the obvious choice is to hit up the Field Museum. A group of third and fourth graders from Urban Prairie...
What Was The Largest Ape To Ever Live?
IFLScience· 9 hours agoThe largest species of great ape to ever walk the Earth was Gigantopithecus blacki. Standing over 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) tall and weighing up to 300...
I traveled to a ‘Blue Zone’: Here’s how it changed my daily routines
Motherly via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoLearn from the macaws These endangered animals mate for life. They also split the family duties! At...
A Completely New Dinosaur Species With "Ridiculously" Short Arms Discovered
CCM· 3 days agoArchaeologists have uncovered a new species of dinosaur that had even shorter arms than a T-Rex. You...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: The Field Museum evolves — take a look back as it turns 130
Chicago Tribune· 1 day agoExposition. When the World’s Fair closed, however, many chose to leave behind their artifacts and...
‘Man, the hunter’? Archaeologists’ assumptions about gender roles in past humans ignore an icky but...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIf hunter-gatherers went beyond nose-to-tail eating to include the undigested plant matter in a prey...
The mutant wildlife adapting to New York City
BBC News· 9 hours agoIn the 400 years since New York City's birth, the local wildlife has adapted to a life of fast food, pollution and isolation. At a top secret location in...
It’s hard to find fossil skin, but a rare discovery reveals clues about the evolution from water to...
The Conversation· 4 days agoFossilized skin and other soft tissues are exceedingly rare, and it is only under special conditions that these rarest of fossils are preserved. Most skin is preserved as impressions in the ...
Opalised fossil of “echidnapus” discovered
Cosmos· 5 days agoAustralian scientists have described 3 new genera of fossil monotremes from opalised jaws dating back to the Cenomanian Age of the Cretaceous Period,...