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Amazing plesiosaur fossil preserves its skin and scales
A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...
Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales From an Ancient Sea Monster
With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...
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Researchers Stunned as New Fossil Discovery Pushes the Date of Presence of Hominins by Half a Million Years
Researchers Stunned as New Fossil Discovery Pushes the Date of Presence of Hominins by Half a Million Years A new study ...
This 12,500-year-old fossil found on Valentine’s Day 1961 got hearts pounding
The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% ...
Plans for sea dragon centrepiece at new-look museum
Rutland County Council is set to discuss proposals to turn the Rutland County Museum into a cultural and civic centre. Design ...
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Groundbreaking dinasour exhibit debuts in Hilo, diving into prehistoric oceans and its creatures
The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo is hosting the debut of Expedition Dinosaur: Into the Deep, a groundbreaking traveling display developed by Stage 9 Exhibits that dives into the marine reptiles, ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in Antarctica
The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. 66 million years ...
The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...