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Buhais Geology Park opens in UAE's Sharjah Desert

British architectural firm Hopkins Architects has completed the Buhais Geology Park Interpretative Centre,...

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11-year-old discovers rare 475-million-year-old fossil in Tennessee

While enjoying an evening walk at Douglas Lake in East Tennessee, 11-year-old Ryleigh Taylor stumbled upon a magnificent...

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Footprints from world's largest dinosaur discovered in Scotland

Dozens of footprints from ancient sauropods, a kind of creature that scientists believe may have been the largest...

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Scientists say mass extinction warning signs exist — and they can be observed today

Is Earth staring down a mass extinction? Recent research from an international team of scientists reveals warning...

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Off-grid Fossil Discovery Exhibit camouflages into the Texan desert

Big Bend National Park isn’t just a place of stunning natural beauty—the Texan park is also paleontological...

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Treasure trove of Triassic fossils found at Bears Ears

What may perhaps be the world's greatest cache of Triassic-era fossils was discovered by scientists at Utah's Bears...

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Newly-discovered dinosaur species was as long as a school bus - and could help solve a mystery

Fossils in Africa from the Late Cretaceous time period - around 100 to 66 million years ago - are rare. Scientists...

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Incredible fossil discovery rewrites the history of human migration out of Africa

Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a modern human outside of Africa in Misliya Cave near Mount...

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215 pterosaur eggs unearthed in biggest collection ever found

Scientists recently uncovered the largest group of fossilized pterosaur eggs ever. In a 10-foot-long sandstone...

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Geologists discover fossils from 13 ancient tree species in Antarctica

It may be hard to believe, but forests once sprawled across Antarctica. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM)...

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Ancient flying reptile was around the size of a small plane

Pterosaurs roamed the skies long ago as the first animals to evolve powered flight after insects - and in the Gobi...

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Brand new "mega-carnivore" dinosaur discovered in Africa

Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains of what may have been the largest predator to ever hunt on the African...

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Scientists just discovered a whole lot more about the once-hidden continent Zealandia

Scientists recently gathered more clues into the history of Earth's seventh continent, Zealandia. The mostly submerged...

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This boy accidentally found a 1.2 million-year-old fossil by tripping over it

Sometimes, there are benefits to being clumsy - so discovered 9-year-old Jude Sparks on a recent hike in New Mexico's...

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100-million-year-old dinosaur remains discovered in Canada look 'weeks old'

A group of miners in Canada accidentally stumbled upon what is possibly the most intact dinosaur carcass science...

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