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Woman Finds Smiling Fossil on Holy Island
It was supposed to be a quiet Boxing Day walk along the windswept shores of Holy Island. The tide was low, the Northumberland air crisp and sharp, and the beach scattered with pebbles polished smooth by centuries of sea and salt. For 64 year old Christine Clark, fossil hunting had become a cherished tradition during…
The Pokemon Fossil Museum Is Finally Coming to Chicago
For years, fans in North America have watched photos and stories trickle out of Japan showing a museum exhibit that looked almost too good to be true. Pokémon skeletons posed like real fossils. Ancient ammonites are displayed beside Omanyte. Children learning real paleontology concepts while following a Pikachu dressed like a field scientist. It felt…
Ancient Dinosaur Discovery Connects Extinction and Environmental Change
When visitors step into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History this holiday season, they will encounter more than a striking fossil behind glass. They will come face to face with a fragment of deep time, a survivor of processes that shaped Earth long before humans existed. The near-complete skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, a dome-headed…
How a Simple Agate Became a Dinosaur Discovery
For more than a century, a delicate pink and white sphere sat quietly in the Mineralogy Collection of the Natural History Museum in London. It was admired for its beauty and symmetry and regarded as a fine example of agate. Generations of curators cataloged it, moved it, displayed it and stored it again without suspecting…
Where Does Oil Actually Come From? The Answer Isn’t Dinosaurs
Picture yourself at a gas station, pumping fuel into your car. You might imagine, somewhere in the back of your mind, that you’re filling your tank with liquefied velociraptor. Maybe a hint of T. rex. Perhaps some stegosaurus for good measure. Sounds absurd when you say it out loud, doesn’t it? Yet millions of people…
Ancient Dinosaur Discovery in Canada Reveals How Nature Preserves Life Through Time
Every once in a while, nature reveals a story it has been keeping for millions of years. These stories do not come in words but in silence, waiting for someone curious enough to listen. Beneath the surface of our planet lies more than soil and stone. There are traces of entire worlds that came before…