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How to dig up 55 tons of dinosaur bones from the world’s fiercest desert
A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...
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Beneath the Asphalt: How a Geothermal Drill Unveiled Denver’s Deepest Dinosaur Fossil and Ancient Ecosystem
What are the odds of drilling a two-inch hole and hitting a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur bone over 760 feet below a museum parking lot? Statistically speaking, it’s nearly impossible. As Denver ...
A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like ‘a hole in one from the moon.’
A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where ...
Africa’s freshwater ecosystems depend on little creatures like insects and snails: study maps overlooked species
Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...
A last glimpse inside the world’s vanishing cave societies
For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...
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‘Nothing Short of Magical’: Scientists Discover a Dinosaur Bone Nearly 800 Feet Beneath a Parking Lot at a Denver Museum
The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...
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How Underwater Archaeology Brings Secrets to the Surface, From Lost Shipwrecks to Submerged Cities
An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...
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Discovery of a lost world beneath the Pacific, challenging our ...
Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, scientists believed they understood its structure and functioning. But a ...