Category: Paleontology
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Insights From Rare Mummified Dinosaur Skin – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Insights into the Mesozoic era usually come from fossilized bones, making the preserved skin of “Dakota”—a duck-billed dinosaur from an Edmontosaurus specimen—particularly rare. The finding, discovered in South Dakota in 1999, is uncommon because skin is trickier than bones to preserve but new research makes the discovery even more peculiar. Previously, scientists believed that […]
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7,000-Year-Old Structure That Predates Stonehenge Discovered – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In the Czech Republic, archeologists discovered a 7,000-year-old circular structure from the Neolithic period that is believed to have been constructed between 4,900 BCE and 4,600 BCE. This is 1,000 years before the construction of Stonehenge and several thousand years earlier than the Pyramids of Giza. Measuring 180 feet in diameter, the structure—called a […]
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150-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Vomit Discovered in Utah – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In southeast Utah, paleontologists discovered 150-million-year-old fossilized vomit that offers new insight about Jurassic ecosystems. While surveying the Morrison Formation, a famous paleontological site, the team came across an odd pile of amphibian bones, including ones that were only 0.12 inches long and regurgitalite (the fossilized form vomit). Scientists suspect that a bowfin fish […]
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Rare Fossils That Predate Dinosaurs Found in Canada – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] While walking her dog on the picturesque Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, high school teacher Lisa St Coeur Cormier came across something sticking out of the sand. What she discovered turned out to be extremely rare fossils (including the spine, skull and ribcage) of an unidentified animal that is believed to be 300 […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Bacteria-based batteries, a new armored dinosaur, India’s forest bridges and more from around the web A Battery Powered by Bacteria and Sweat Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have engineered a bacteria-based battery that can produce power from human sweat. The key to their innovation is bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens, a bacteria that can […]
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Fossils of Previously Unknown Dinosaur Discovered – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Researchers have found the fossils of a previously unknown dinosaur—named the Jakapil kaniukura—in the La Buitrera palaeontological zone in Patagonia’s Río Negro province. The dinosaur existed during the Cretaceous period (between 145.5 and 65.5 million years ago) and would have been well-protected thanks to disc-shaped armor covering its neck, back and tail. Its armored […]
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Researchers Uncover a Fragment of the Asteroid That May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Paleontologists discovered a tiny fragment that may have been from the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs, as revealed in a new documentary Dinosaur Apocalypse. Found in the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota, the fragment was preserved in amber after landing in tree resin upon impact, enabling […]