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French fossil hunters armed with angle grinders damage protected beach
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFrench fossil hunters reportedly damaged a protected beach with angle grinders in search of...
Ammonite fossil found in Hopewell Mound group in Ohio came from South Dakota, paper asserts
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 12 months agoOne of the distinguishing characteristics of Ohio’s indigenous American Indian Hopewell culture,...
Paleontologists Disagree About What This Exquisite Shark Fossil Actually Is
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThe fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of...
11 jaw-dropping fossil discoveries that weren't dinosaurs in 2023
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 months ago. Dinosaurs often steal the limelight when it comes to fossils, but other prehistoric critters are...
Fossil hunter wants world-renowned collection to stay in UK
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWolfgang Grulke has amassed several thousand specimens that span 500 million years of evolution -...
Mysterious 'golden' fossils from the Jurassic aren’t what they seem
Live Science via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA piece of black shale embedded with golden-hued fossils. It was long thought that pyrite — a shiny...
Fossil-cleaning exhibit brings out prehistoric wonders at Ventura County Fair
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWhen rain pelted Ventura County earlier this year, 15-year-old Kaylee Tan went in search of fossils...
'Like swallowing a dinner plate': 180 million-year-old fish may have choked to death on its...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoa fossilized fish that died after eating a huge ammonite The tuna-like Pachycormus macropterus got...
First Jurassic vertebrate fossils found in Texas uncovered by scientists at UT Austin
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils found in Texas have been discovered by a team led by...
Fossil of great white shark’s extinct 30-foot ancestor found in Mexico
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 week agoScientists have found an exceptionally preserved giant fossil of an ancestor to great white sharks,...