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Astonishing 385-Million Year Old Forest Discovered Under a Quarry in the...
This is the second fossilised forest that has stunned researchers this month, and it's also the oldest. It's 385 million years old, from the time when the earth's first forests appeared. And it was all...
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Oldest Fossilised Bugs Ever Found Preserved in Amber. Clone Time!
You know the drill: An ancient bug is minding its own business, munching some leaves, buzzin’ some dinos’, when all of a sudden he’s sucked up into a ball of tree resin and winds up in a 21st century...
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Holy Crap, Here’s a 100-Million-Year-Old Spider Eating a Wasp
100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still around, this spider had captured a wasp in his web. The wasp was going to be the spider’s dinner. The wasp was going to die watching the spider kill...
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Leave Our Awesome Dinosaur Stampedes Alone
For years, people were perfectly happy believing that the series of fossilised footprints in Australia’s Lark Quarry was all that remained of an epic dinosaur stampede. Then Science happened. According...
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A Nine-Year-Old Girl Got a New Ancient Flying Reptile Species Named After Her...
When Daisy Morris was four years old, she found fossilised bones of a previously undiscovered species of the flying reptile beast pterosaur. Now, at nine years young, scientists have decided to name...
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Scientists Have Found the Oldest Primate Skeleton Ever
Today’s smallest primate, the pygmy mouse lemur, can reach up to about 5 inches in height — and that’s even on the larger side. But the primate skeleton that researchers just uncovered, the oldest ever...
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Here’s a 120,000 Year Old Tumour Found Inside a Neanderthal
Neanderthals weren’t smoking cigarettes. They weren’t breathing in pollution. They weren’t eating processed foods. They weren’t dealing with pesticides. Nope. But apparently, Neanderthals still got...
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This Database Lets You 3D Print and Explore Thousands of Fossils
Fossils are three dimensional objects, but you aren’t really supposed to touch them, and you can’t see their depth and detail very easily over the internet. But a new database of fossils from the...
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How the AMNH is Using 3D Printing to Copy Dinosaur Bones
You’re a secondary school science teacher and your class is learning about dinosaurs. You can’t exactly run to the local dino bone barn and buy some bargain bones for them to see first-hand. But what...
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How to Fossilise… Yourself
Fossils aren’t the preserve of dead dinosaurs and ancient insects. Believe it or not, you could ensure that your body lives on, perfectly preserved in stone, for ever more. You just need to die in a...
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3D Scanning Saved These Ancient Footprints Just Before They Washed Away
In May 2013, a storm uncovered these ancient footprints on an English beach. At over 800,000 years old, they’re the oldest human ancestor footprints ever found outside of Africa. The storm that...
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