By Alek Anaya, May 2 2024—
The fan-favourite actor and singer Kermit the Frog made headlines the past two weeks when scientists named an ancient species after him. The Kermitops Gratus was bestowed with the privilege of sharing its name … Read the rest
By Jonathan Barazzutti, December 23 2023—
Teams of scientists who collaborate in person make more breakthroughs than teams of scientists who work remotely, a new study suggests.
Researchers Yiling Lin and Lingfei Wu at the University of Pittsburgh and Carl … Read the rest
By Sheroog Kubur, August 12 2022—
Dave the shark is an ancient shark skeleton from Morden, Manitoba, originally found in 1975. However, Dave remained in storage at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre for 40 years — until he was rediscovered … Read the rest
By Nimra Amir, July 22 2022—
The Yukon has a world-renowned fossil record of ice-age animals, but the same cannot be said for mummified remains — that is, until June 21 when an almost complete, mummified baby woolly mammoth was … Read the rest
By Luis Armando Sanchez Diaz, February 22 2021—
Lily Wilder, a four-year-old girl, was walking alongside her parents at a Welsh beach when she made the discovery of a dinosaur footprint. It is estimated by paleontologists that the fossil has … Read the rest
By Mitali Pradhan, February 27 2020 —
Researchers at the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum have recently identified a new species of meat-eating dinosaur. The 79-million-year-old fossil was discovered in 2010 by John and Sandra de Groot … Read the rest
