Alaska’s First Fossil Ichthyosaur Found With Last Meal Still in Its Gut

Cliff Dwelling in Utah Found to Have Unique Decoration: Dinosaur Tracks

September 26, 2016 —by Blake de Pastino 17763 1

In a Utah cliff dwelling, researchers have found a decoration that’s never been reported before: dinosaur tracks above the front door.

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Giant Triassic Predator, Named for Baby-Eating Monster, Discovered in New Mexico

September 8, 2016 —by Blake de Pastino 6838 0

In a fossil quarry in New Mexico, paleontologists have found a creature fearsome enough to be worthy of the name Vivaron.

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Alaska’s First Fossil Ichthyosaur Found With Last Meal Still in Its Gut

December 4, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 5737 1

New insights into life in the ancient oceans are emerging from a huge fossil found in a remote reach of northern Alaska — the largest and most complete specimen of…

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Cliff Dwelling in Utah Found to Have Unique Decoration: Dinosaur Tracks

Giant Triassic Predator, Named for Baby-Eating Monster, Discovered in New Mexico

Alaska’s First Fossil Ichthyosaur Found With Last Meal Still in Its Gut

700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded

Wyoming Wildfire Reveals ‘Massive’ Shoshone Camp, Thousands of Artifacts

16,000-Year-Old Tools Discovered in Texas, Among the Oldest Found in the West

At 50, Ring-Tab Beer Cans Are Now Officially Historic Artifacts

New Dinosaur Found in Montana Reveals Tyrannosaurs’ True Face (They Didn’t Have Lips)

First-Ever Fossil Poop Excavated From L.A.’s La Brea Tar Pits

New Feathered Dinosaur From New Mexico Was Among the ‘Last of the Raptors’

America’s Earliest Traces of Potato Use Found at 10,900-Year-Old Utah Shelter

Rock Art in Chaco Canyon May Depict Ancient Solar Eclipse, Experts Say

World’s Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur, a ‘Mona Lisa’ of Fossils, Found in Alberta