Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. About 67 million years ago, two dinosaurs faced off in a showdown in what is now Montana before being buried together in a single grave. It is not clear which… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Visitors to the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark, have been in for a surprise for over a year now: to marvel at a previously unknown and unnamed species of dinosaur. The banner next to… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When a father, his two sons, and their cousins went for a walk in the Badlands of North Dakota in 2022, they found what looked like a dinosaur leg sticking out of a rock. Liam… Read More »
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – On February 20, 1824, British naturalist and theologian William Buckland, addressing the Geological Society of London, described massive jaw and limb bones unearthed in a slate quarry in the village of Stonesfield, near Oxford. Buckland recognized that these fossils belonged to a giant reptile from the past and gave it… Read More »
The fossil, located on the surface of a large rock discovered in Cap Egmont in 2022, had to be quickly removed from the ground due to concerns that the waves had washed it away. (Submitted by John Calder – image source) Scientists are still assessing the impact of post-tropical storm Fiona on fossils and other… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The massive fossilized bones that emerged from slate quarries in Oxfordshire, England, starting in the late 1600s were immediately puzzling. In a world where evolution and extinction were unknown concepts, experts of the time took… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The massive fossilized bones that emerged from slate quarries in Oxfordshire, England, starting in the late 1600s were immediately puzzling. In a world where evolution and extinction were unknown concepts, experts of the time took… Read More »