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A scientist found the first fossil decades ago, and now he's finally brought a 31-foot dinosaur-eating monster back from the dead
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (527+ words) A scientist working in South America uncovered several massive fossil bones during the 1980s. Researchers quickly realized the remains belonged to a predator. The animal had heavy limbs and a powerful skull built for hunting and feeding. But there was an…...
An underwater volcano no one had mapped just erupted in the Bismarck Sea " and it may be building a new island
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (345+ words) Scientists can map the surface of Mars in sharper detail than stretches of Earth's own ocean floor. Nowhere is that gap more glaring than the Bismarck Sea, a deep, geologically tangled basin north of Papua New Guinea " a place where…...
Mauna Loa's 2022 eruption just became a key to unlocking Venus's volcanic secrets
1+ week, 2+ day ago (426+ words) Venus may be volcanically alive right now " but from Earth, scientists have no way to confirm it. The clues needed to answer that question may have arrived from an unlikely source: a 13-day eruption on a Hawaiian island in late…...
These four glaciers have existed since the age of the mammoths, and now they could disappear for the first time in human history
1+ week, 6+ day ago (575+ words) These four glaciers have endured for thousands of years in changing environments. They first formed when mammoths still wandered across North America. Now, scientists warn that the ancient ice could disappear within decades. Researchers now think some Sierra Nevada ice…...
A "mummified reptile" found in Oklahoma is giving scientists a rare clue to how humans breathe and a mystery that has lasted for centuries
2+ week, 6+ day ago (634+ words) A 289-million-year-old reptile found in Oklahoma is revealing the secrets behind breathing. The fossil preserved soft tissue, including a ribcage similar to our own. Its remains are not just bones, they are evidence of how early lungs functioned. Including skin,…...
A geoscience student returned to the crater where the dinosaur-killing meteorite struck and uncovered a terrifying new species no one had ever seen
3+ week, 3+ day ago (596+ words) Ground zero of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs just yielded a ghost from the past. Among the debris of a global catastrophe, a student found evidence of a predator that shouldn't exist. It didn't come from a fossil bed…...
A diver entered a hidden cave in Texas expecting darkness until he stumbled into an Ice Age world where creatures from thousands of years ago still lingered
3+ week, 5+ day ago (232+ words) A diver entered a hidden water cave in Texas expecting emptiness. Instead, he found evidence of a hidden Ice Age World that was preserved almost perfectly....
This library has had silent "employees" protecting its books for 300 years until you realize they've never been paid and never stop working
3+ week, 5+ day ago (567+ words) Credits: Xiquinhosilva from Cacau (CC 2. 0 Generic, no changes made) Every night, silent "employees" sweep through a historic library, guarding books without fail. They never clock in, never ask for payment, and have occupied these stacks for over three centuries. Visitors…...
EE. UU. e India refuerzan su pacto de minerales cr'ticos para liderar el ecosistema global de inteligencia artificial
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (549+ words) La expresi'n "Pax Silica" alude a un nuevo periodo de paz geopol'tica basado en el control y la cooperaci'n consensuada sobre la industria del silicio y sus componentes estrat'gicos para la. .. EE. UU. e India refuerzan su pacto de minerales…...
Fossils that "fooled" paleontologists for 20 years turned out to be baby ankylosaurs " including one that had just hatched
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (477+ words) For more than two decades, dozens of unusually small armored dinosaur fossils from northeastern China defied easy explanation. At no more than 40 centimeters long " a fraction of what scientists expect from their group " they seemed to represent something extraordinary: a…...