Bat guano is a good preservative.
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Dubbed “one of the worst fossil reconstructions in history,” the so-called “Magdeburg Unicorn” again making rounds on the internet.
Great, now we can't stop cutting things in half and peeping at their pretty insides.
“We’re going after those who have profited," said Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Animals have the power to entertain us, to spark powerful emotions, and even reveal something about ourselves. Their triumphs and tragedies mirror our own.
Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina has been a staunch ally of the coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power industries – and executives, political action committees and lobbyists for those firms have opened their wallets for his re-election campaign.
Stromatolites are large, layered structures built up by mats of cyanobacteria. Stromatolites vary in appearance, ranging from slightly wrinkled horizontal laminations in sedimentary rocks to low mounds to prominent mounds to columnar structures and other forms. Stromatolites are most common in the Proterozoic fossil record. They are scarce today, but famous modern examples occur at Shark Bay, Western Australia.
A consultant's report on the potential impact of divestiture is due in the coming months.
Outstanding circuit board art from artist Peter McFarlane, shared via COLOSSAL. From Mcfarlane’s portfolio site: My circuit board paintings arose from working as a computer sales consultant b…
The first thing to notice on this evogram is that hippos are the closest living relatives of whales, but they are not the ancestors of whales. In fact, none of the individual animals on the evogram is the direct ancestor of any other, as far as we know. That's why each of them gets its
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L'embryon du dinosaure est comparable à celui d'un oiseau. Un fossile de bébé oviraptorosaure a été découvert dans son œuf.
Near the city of Delingha in China a group of archaeologists from the US discovered a series of pipes that were merged with the mountains not far from Mount Baigong. The scientists were actually searching for dinosaur fossils when they came upon the...
A petition by 16-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez attracted over 100,000 signatures demanding that the 2016 presidential candidates end the use of fossil fuels.
