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Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil. Are dinosaurs next?
Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...
Micro-CT Scans Could Damage Fossils Despite Seen As Safe: Study
Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of ...
Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
A Massive Underwater Fossil Find Includes Remains From Ancient Human Ancestors
Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including ...
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Tiny fossil with razor teeth found by student — rewrites mammal history
A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...
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Tiny fossil, big discovery: Student uncovers a lost mammal species
A student’s fossil discovery on a UK beach has revealed a new species of prehistoric mammal, reshaping ideas about early ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4d
A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New Species
Paleontologist Victor Beccari was looking through the fossilized reptiles housed at London’s Natural History Museum when he ...
A Fossil-Fuel Boom in the Americas
The U.S. is leading a revival of exploration and drilling in the Western Hemisphere.
Two sides of the same fossil: The story of a small arboreal reptile from the Jurassic period
Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...