Category: Archaeologists
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Hieroglyphs from 5,000 Years Ago: Computers and Bicycles in Ancient Mexico?
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Buried beneath layers of forgotten earth, a college student unearthed a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull, awakening secrets lost to ancient time.
As a child, Harrison Duran would visit the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, captivated by the fossils preserved in asphalt. Now 23, Duran is responsible for his own fossil discovery: the 65-million-year-old partial skull of a triceratops. In June, the University of California, Merced student participated in a paleontology dig with Michael Kjelland,…
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Deep within the ancient jawbone of a T-Rex, haunting holes remain, silent witnesses to a mysterious force that once scarred the mighty beast. Would you like a version that’s even darker or more suspenseful?
The fossil of Sue the T-Rex is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. Sue, the biggest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex ever unearthed, no doubt was a fearsome beast when this predator prowled what is now South Dakota about 67 million years ago at the twilight of the age of dinosaurs. But even…
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Buried for 201 million years, the Welsh cousin of T-Rex emerged from Penarth’s shores, cloaked in ancient mystery and forgotten power.
A dinosaur has been discovered on a beach near Penarth As far as discoveries on the beach go, this will take some beating – the first carnivorous dinosaur ever found in Wales. Two brothers found the fossilised skeleton of the dinosaur, thought to be around 201 million years old. This new Welsh dinosaur was a…
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Deep within the shadows of the KORITE Mine, a mosasaur’s ancient remains whispered secrets from a forgotten ocean world.
DRUMHELLER — Think Flipper the dolphin, but really, really big and with a nasty set of teeth. Think Flipper the dolphin, but really, really big and with a nasty set of teeth. That’s sort of what the prehistoric marine reptile which used to swim across Alberta’s ancient seas looked like, according to a 75-million-year-old fossil…
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Scientists uncover the ‘monkeydactyl,’ a mysterious flying dinosaur with opposable thumbs, baffling experts worldwide.
Paleontologists have discovered the first-known fossil of a flying dinosaur with opposable thumbs. Nicknamed “Monkeydactyl”, the 160-million-year-old pterosaur likely used its dexterity to climb trees and hunt for insects and other prey. A team of international researchers unearthed the Jurassic remains in Liaoning, northeastern China, a hotbed for fossil discovery. The monkeydactyl is the earliest…
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Scientists hint at reviving woolly mammoths, as 40,000-year-old remains whisper secrets of life after extinction.
Woolly mammoths could be brought back from extinction after a preserved body of one of the ancient animals was found frozen in the snowy wastes of Siberia, scientists hope. The mammoth, which took its last steps around 40,000 years ago, is in such good condition that biologists believe they may be able to clone the…
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In Russia’s frozen depths, a fossil with saw-shaped teeth hints at a ghostly ancestor lost to time.
A rare fossil of a prehistoric monster-fish’s spiral of chainsaw-like teeth has been found in Russia. The scary Helicoprion was an extinct ancestor of the modern-day ghost shark or ratfish with an impressive set of nashers – that lived millions of years before the dinosaurs. Discovered in an open coal mine in Volgograd, southern Russia,…
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A rare fossilized patch of dinosaur skin has unveiled secrets long buried, revealing the true face of a legendary predator.
‘Dino skin is more diverse than previously thought,’ say researchers, with South American predator displaying coat made of scales, studs and thorns Scientists have analysed the well-preserved skin of one of the “strangest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered” in unprecedented detail and found that its complex coat was made up of different patterns of scales and…
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Frozen in time, these 480-million-year-old conga lines reveal an ancient mystery: the earliest signs of social coordination.
Nearly half a billion years ago, marine arthropods called trilobites lined up single-file before meeting a tragic end. Lines of the Ampyx priscus trilobite from a site near Zagora, Morocco that dates back 480 million years. From flocks of birds to schools of fish, modern species across the animal kingdom enjoy each other’s company—so much…