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6 Rare Fossils That Were Hidden In Plain Sight
You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under ...
‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
A trace fossil of 66 dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in Australia, providing a rare snapshot of dinosaur behavior and ...
Deer hunter stumbles across 'stump' that turns out to be super rare mammoth tusk
A hunter in West Texas was searching for some deer. Instead, he uncovered a rare fossil from a prehistoric species.
Remarkable Find: Scientists Discover 15-Million-Year-Old Fish With Preserved Stomach and Stripes
Australian scientists have discovered an ancient freshwater fish fossil with its stomach contents remarkably preserved. In a ...
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Rare 15 million-year-old fish fossil discovered, stomach shockingly intact
“The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented opportunity to understand ...
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A New Jersey Paleontologist’s Priceless Fossil Collection Was Dumped In A Landfill By UPS Because His University Wasn’t Paying Their Bills
In June 2024, paleontologist Martin Becker of New Jersey's William Paterson University packed up his life's work, a priceless ...
Rare aardvark trace fossils discovered in South Africa
A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and ...
Professor sues William Paterson University after priceless, rare fossils were dumped in a landfill
An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...
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Stomach contents preserved after 15 million years in fish fossil
Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...
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When Somerset museum featured a huge fossil collection
THE year is 1992 and a rare fossil collection is featured in Taunton at the Somerset Museum. Multiple artefacts including bones of woolly rhinoceroses, mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and cave lions and ...
Chicago outdoors: Fossil hunting and rare finds among the notes
Jay Damm hunting fossils at Mazonia State Fish and Wildlife Area leads the note package around Chicago outdoors and beyond.