Fossils of Laurel Maryland

Discovery In the 1970s and 80s my young daughter and I spent much time hanging out at road cuts looking for fossils. For me the passion began with discovering ancient shells embedded in the limestone wall...

Paleontologists versus smugglers – a race to remains

On a clear day in winter, I used to bundle up my daughter and we would head to our favorite road cut to look for fossils. We would park alongside the country road where there was little traffic and climb the steep...

Let me take you to Los Angeles to the Ice Age – see it today

Here is a headline that appeared 369 days ago and I bet you missed it. Every day, paleontologists work at the Page Museum adjacent the La Brea tar pits right next to the Los Angeles Museum of Art discovering and...

Bids & Auction For Dinosaur & Other Extinct Species Foosil

Its really interesting to know about this. Bids and auction on extinct species fossil and that too with high prices available now though auction. So owing this fossils may be for museum is too costly yet...

Evolution Evidence Found Between Dinosaurs And Birds

From the fossils discovered in northernwest China a new evolution evidence about how dinosaur evolved into bird has come out. The remains were discovered in northwest China that are deposited 159 million years...

Ice Age is coming soon: geologicaly speaking in 10000years

Nature is full of suprises and the more humans tries to solve the mystry the more it gets confused.The latest study on changing climatic pattern suggests that we are heading towards ice age.. " The planet could...

After 200 million years, all-male future spells doom for reptiles

A group of reptiles called tuataras, the only surviving order that were around when dinosaurs roamed the earth could be wiped out because climate change could turn all the eggs into males - causing them to not be...

Norwegian blue parrot did exist

"This parrot is deceased A Monty Python fan has discovered that Norwegian parrots really did exist. Some 55 million years before John Cleese and Michael Palin immortalised the "Norwegian...

From Deer to Whale?

"The gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from a land animal the size of a small raccoon, new research suggests. What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd...

The Dinosaurs of Carnegie

Do you ever get that nagging feeling that you've missed your calling? I didn't, not until today... I could have been a Dinosaur Diorama Engineer."An Apatosaurus rears its head in anger, swinging its tail wildly,...

Dinosaur find shows early social behavior: study

 "LONDON (Reuters) - The fossilized remains of six young dinosaurs found together in a "nursery" at a site in China show these animals had started forming social groups much earlier than previously thought,...

Skull, jaw fossils offer new insight into human lineage

"A 1-1/2-million-year-old skull and an equally old jaw found in Kenya are helping rewrite the history of early man, eliminating one reputed ancestor from the human lineage and suggesting that another was much more primitive than previously believed, researchers said...

Study points to larger role of Asian ancestors in evolution

Chicago (ANTARA News) - A new analysis of the dental fossils of human ancestors suggests that Asian populations played a larger role than Africans in colonizing Europe millions of years ago, said a study to be...

For Good Health, Eat a Dinosaur

... or so some believe. Even adjusting for currency values, the price listed below for dino bones seems awfully affordable. "n an attempt to gain healing powers, villagers in central China boiled a ton of dinosaur...

Giant Bird-Dinosaur Discovered!

... No, it wasn't found alive, which may be a good thing: T-Rexes were intimidating enough before they could fly! In rural China, paleontologists (dino-archaeologists) have discovered a massive and probably...

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