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A severe drought that dried up a Texas river exposed dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago. CNN reports experts recently discovered the fossilized tracks in Dinosaur Valley State Park near Fort Worth, Texas. Scientists believe the tracks belong to the Acrocanthosaurus, a 15-foot tall creature that weighed about seven tons as an adult. “Most tracks that have recently been […]
Five years ago, paleontologist Amelia Penny struck gold in Scotland’s Isle of Skye when she noticed a fossilized jaw amongst the terrain during a field study 2017. Now, the near-complete fossil reveals a 170 million-year-old prehistoric flying reptile that is “the largest of its kind ever discovered from the Jurassic period,” according to the National Museum of Scotland. As […]
Scientists revealed Wednesday that the fossil from a new amphibious four-legged whale species known as Phiomicetus anubis was discovered in the Fayum Depression of the Western Desert in Egypt, BBC News reports. Dating back 43 million years, this species was named after the area where the discovery was made and Anubis, the Egyptian jackal-headed god […]
The discovery of a huge fossilised skull that was wrapped up and hidden in a Chinese well nearly 90 years ago could belong to a completely new species of human, the New York Times reports. The well-preserved skullcap, found by a team of researchers in the Chinese city of Harbin, is between 138,000 and 309,000 years old, […]
Even the best minds need a little something extra to get them through the day. It’s a digital kind of world, and we’re just trying to live in it, but Silicon Valley-based tech executive John Imah is one of the few geniuses chosen to create it – and we just want to know his secrets. […]
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