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Earliest known skull of Homo erectus unearthed by Australian-led team
The Guardian   02 April 2020   South Africa  
Homo erectus cranium outline. The earliest known skull of Homo erectus has been unearthed by an Australian-led team in South Africa. Photograph: Supplied by La Trobe University
<p>The earliest known skull of Homo erectus has been unearthed by an Australian-led team of researchers who have dated the fossil at two million years old, showing the first of our ancestors existed up to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.<br>The ...
The World's Smallest-Known Dinosaur Measured Less Than 2.25 Inches!
DOGO news   24 March 2020   World  
The skull of the world's tiniest dinosaur was found perfectly preserved in a pebble-sized piece of amber (Credit: Lida Xing)
<p>Over the years, researchers have unearthed fossils of many of the estimated 2,468 dinosaur species that roamed Earth during the Mesozoic era, which spanned from between 252 million years ago to about 66 million years ago. However, few can compare to the ...
20 Scariest Bridges You Wouldn’t Want To Cross
The mind circle   18 March 2020   World  
<p>Did you know that the fear of bridges is called &ldquo;gephyrophobia&rdquo;? Even if you do not suffer from it, these hair-raising scariest bridges could be the best things to test your gutsy spirit&hellip;</p>
The five: dinosaurs that once roamed the British Isles
The Guardian   15 March 2020   UK   Scotland  
<p>Last week scientists discovered the first Stegosaurus footprints in Scotland. Which other prehistoric reptiles lived on these shores? </p>
75 million-year-old dinosaur skeletons found with fossil chromosomes
Tech Explorist   02 March 2020   USA   Montana  
Reconstruction of the nesting ground of Hypacrosaurus (Photo provided to Xinhua by Michael Rothman)
<p>Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Mary Schweitzer, of North Carolina State University in the United States, have discovered evidence of fossilized cell nuclei and ...
5 of the most devastating earthquakes in US history
Fox News   21 February 2020   USA  
In terms of fatalities, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the most devastating in the U.S. (earthquake.usgs.gov)
<p>In 2019, California was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.1 and 6.4, respectively. The quakes brought renewed attention to the state’s vulnerability given its boundaries around the San Andreas fault line.<br>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...
Car-sized turtle fossils unearthed
BBC NEWS   13 February 2020   Colombia, Venezuela  
The Stupendemys geographicus was roughly the size of a car
<p>Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in what is now northern South America.<br />The turtle - Stupendemys geographicus - is believed to have roamed the region between 13 and 7 million years ago.<br />The fossils were found in Colombia's ...
'Reaper of death': scientists discover new dinosaur species related to T rex
The Guardian   10 February 2020   Canada  
Photograph: Julius Csotonyi/The University of Calgary and Ro/AFP via Getty Images
<p>Scientists in Canada have announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur closely related to Tyrannosaurus rex that strode the plain of North America about 80m years ago. Thanatotheristes degrootorum – Greek for “reaper of death” – is thought to be ...
Fossil-shaped buildings showcase geology in the Arabian desert
New Atlas   07 February 2020   United Arab Emirates   Sharjah  
Marc Goodwin
<p>The recently-completed Buhais Geology Park is quite unusual but takes its place well among the rugged desert landscape in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The project is inspired by fossils that are present on the site and is designed to resemble fossilized ...
Geologists Confirm a Staggering 2.2 Billion-Year-Old Impact Crater in Australia
Science Alert   22 January 2020   Australia  
Location of the crater. (The Conversation)
<p>Throughout its life, our planet has been pummelled by countless asteroids and comets - even more so than the crater-ridden Moon. Today, thanks to Earth's continually changing surface, there are remarkably few scars left to tell the tale.<br />Australia's ...