Reuters - The nearly complete skeleton of a massive Columbian mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug out of a construction site near the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Los Angeles, a remarkable find even in the fossil-rich area, scientists said Wednesday.
AP - Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of the nation’s second-largest city.
AFP - Scientists have found fossil remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina — a missing link to the carnivores, a researcher said Monday.
AP - Scholars are reconsidering what ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes knew of the concept of infinity, and archaeologists may have found a fossil brain millions of years old, thanks to new ways of looking beneath the surface of ancient objects.
Researchers are using powerful X-rays to find elemental traces of dinosaur tissue next to fossilized bones.
Scientists used laser imaging to investigate how fat — or fit — T. rex and his fellow dinosaurs were. Researchers found that a small T. rex could have weighed anywhere between 5.5 and 7 tonnes, while their larger specimen (Stan) might have weighed as much as 8 tonnes.
The eggs belonged to a small theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur, closely linked to birds - making the fossil the first known nest of its kind
The reader who was visiting the area noticed very distinct and clear images that seem to depict a “Stegosaurus” indicating that this creature might well have survived up until the Khmer era in the region
Once supportive of the project, Loertscher, who gave approximately 50 track-covered slabs to the Idaho Museum of Natural History, has hired an attorney and threatened to sue the university if they’re not returned
The article written by Kenneth Carpenter of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science with the assistance of Jeff Bartlett, John Bird and Reese Barrick of the CEU Museum, reports that bones of a partial skull and post-cranial skeleton of a new large nodosaurid anklylosaur were found in the Cedar Mountain Formation southeast of Price
