Articles in the Category: Dinosaurs

Largest Whale Fossile Bed Unearthed in Chile

Largest Whale Fossile Bed Unearthed in Chile
For seven million years at least 80 ancient whale skeletons have been preserved in the high desert of Chile. Now a road project threatens the ancient burial ground. But developers of the new highway project have given scientists another month to remove and study as much of the area as they can.Whale...

Paleontologists Race Against Time

Paleontologists Race Against Time
A clock started ticking the minute a bulldozer driver discovered a fossil dating back more than 50,000 years last October. He was clearing an area for a reservoir above Snowmass Village, high in the Colorado Rockies. What Jesse Steele discovered could be the biggest high-elevation Ice Age fossil preserve....

Buy Your Own Dinosaur

Buy Your Own Dinosaur
A T-Rex tooth, Woolly Rhino, and Stegadon skull are set to go under the hammer in New York City.

Stories in Stone

Stories in Stone
Urban geologist David Williams is a big stone kinda guy. He is not one to shy away from a nice chunk of gneiss. Nor will he wilt at the sight of weathered brownstone–one of his favorites. Now, the author of Stories in Stone: Travels in Urban Geology, Williams shares his passion for rocks–from...

Georgia Girls Shine as Stars of Science

Georgia Girls Shine as Stars of Science
Summer is no time for idle minds. About 70 Georgia girls are getting a crash course in crime scene investigation, astronomy, dinosaurs and chemistry, neuroscience, computer science and mathematics. The goal of the Women in the Sciences summer camp is to interest young women in pursuing careers in science. Other...

One Celled Solutions

One Celled Solutions
Model of a phage attacking a microbe, courtesy of Ohio State University Science is facing some big questions, like how will we capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide or how will we overcome antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections? But, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea may have the...

Simplifying Evolution

Simplifying Evolution
Amphioxus (top), Evolution of Man (bottom) What’s the difference between a human and a prehistoric fish-like worm? Well, scientists are just beginning to answer that question. It will likely take them years to figure it all out. But new research is already uncovering how genes evolve to perform...

Amazing Dinosaur Discovery

Scientists are excited about a 67 million-year-old duck-billed hadrosaur so well-preserved its skin and possibly some internal organs are intact. It’s not quite the makings for a real-life Jurassic Park but this is perhaps the best example of what dinosaurs were really like. These remains were...

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