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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…