Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Matching footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs traveled on a kind of highway 120 million years before the two continents separated, according to a new study. Paleontologists have found more than… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals, or cold-blooded like reptiles? This is one of paleontology’s oldest questions, and collecting the answer is important because it illuminates how prehistoric creatures lived and behaved. Challenging the… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals, or cold-blooded like reptiles? This is one of paleontology’s oldest questions, and collecting the answer is important because it illuminates how prehistoric creatures lived and behaved. Challenging the… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. A chance discovery in southern France revealed a rare specimen; An almost complete dinosaur skeleton connected from its rear skull to its tail. The massive fossil came to light in May 2022 after 25-year-old amateur… Read More »
Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons Allegation: George Washington died before dinosaurs were discovered. Evaluation: Rating: True Context: Although humans have likely lived with dinosaur fossils for millennia, a fossilized dinosaur bone was first described in 1842, more than four years after George Washington’s death. The claim that George Washington died before the existence of dinosaurs was discovered… Read More »