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Here's how one paleontologist got DC an official dinosaur
NBC Washington· 1 day agoPaleontologist Peter Kranz doesn't necessarily expect to be a famous scientist ... although he...
Dusting Dinosaurs and Elephants: How Specialists Keep the Museum’s Largest Treasures Spotless
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoThis makes sense from a storage perspective: The Smithsonian houses over 154 million objects, the...
Study reveals when the first warm-blooded dinosaurs roamed Earth
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDinosaurs were initially cold-blooded, but global warming 180 million years ago may have triggered...
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 ...
A Major Donation of Fossils Will Help Rebuild the National Museum of Brazil
The New York Observer· 7 days agoLocated in Rio de Janeiro, the 200-year-old institution lost the majority of its 20 million...
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.
People Are Revealing The Creepy Or Downright Bizarre Discoveries They Made In A Friend's Home, And...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 19 hours ago"I used his kitchen tongs to pick everything up, threw them into bags, and hid them away. I take...
Fossil captures starfish splitting itself in two – showing this has been happening for 155 million...
The Conversation· 3 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 ...
Journey Museum to unveil new dinosaur, host book signing
Rapid City Journal· 6 days agoThe skull is from an Acrocanthosaurus atokensis (high-spined lizard from Atoka), which gets...
Charles Matteson Love
The Green River Star· 1 day agoTeacher, adventurer, storyteller, scientist, and colorful local character, Charlie was widely known in Wyoming and the Mountain West. Charles Matteson Love passed away quietly in his sleep on ...