In a North Dakota deposit far from the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, remains of the rock from space were preserved within amber, a paleontologist says.
Tag: Fossils
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‘Big John,’ a High-Profile Triceratops, Locked Horns With Its Own Kind, Study Suggests
A team of Italian scientists describe what they believe is a gaping scar from one of these ancient battles on the neck frill of the Triceratops.
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Fossil Holds Clues to How Some Owls Evolved Into Daytime Hunters
The bird, which sought prey in a part of China 6 million years ago, had eyes shaped in a way that suggest it was not nocturnal like most owls living today.
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Trilobite Fossils Suggest Cannibalism Is Older Than Once Thought
The “king” of the trilobites was snacking on whatever it could eat some 514 million years ago in the Cambrian era, even shelled creatures of its own species.
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Mystery Solved: Stan, the T. Rex, Went to Abu Dhabi
A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as “Stan” that drew a record price at auction in 2020 — $31.8 million — will be part of a new natural history museum in the United Arab Emirates.