Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...
Museum With Renowned Dinosaur Fossils Gets a $25 Million Gift
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, home to the Tyrannosaurus rex holotype and a famous Diplodocus, will benefit from Carole and Daniel Kamin’s donation.
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Florida's Underwater Fossil Bed Reveals Rare History
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled ...
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Evolutionary tale: 'Ancient Life' at NM Museum of Natural History & Science tells the story before the dinosaurs
"Walk Through Time" at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is now complete with the addition of the Bradbury ...
We finally know why so many ancient human bones are pulled from the River Thames
Scientists and historians finally know why hundreds of human bones are still being pulled from the bottom of the River Thames ...
Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights − an archaeologist describes the day that lesson hit home
(THE CONVERSATION) As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past ...
Early Europeans may have eaten their enemies’ brains, archaeologists say
Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.
Ancient pterosaur bones could inspire the future of aerospace engineering
The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...
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Harvard morgue scandal reaches Mass. high court, exposing vast ‘gray market’ in body parts
There’s a brisk underground trade in human remains. The justices pondered a medical research institution’s responsibility for stopping it.
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On the Origin of the Pork Taboo
By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...
Digital Resurrection: Scientists Are on a Mission To Preserve the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal
FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita ...
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How paleontologists are using fossilized shark teeth to date the past
Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...