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When a cyclone hits, the wind is trying very hard to pull the roof off your house. It’s vital the roof stays on – but one weak link can spell disaster.
Palaeontologist João Pratas and teacher Isabel Morais Roldão with the fossil of Gadusaurus aqualigneus, the first ichthyosaur species identified in the Iberian Peninsula. Credit : Facebook - GEAL - ...
Sacramento State Football is coming off a tough season that broke a successful streak for the Hornets. 2025 comes with new head coach Brennan Marion, and this weekend is the first time to see the ...
In the blocky landscapes of Minecraft, millions of players dig, build, and battle each day. But one day, a newcomer broke the game with his diamond mining skills — the game’s most prized ...
Perhaps the most well-known extinction is the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which took place 66 million years ago. We all know about it because it was the event that wiped out the ...
The Marinha Grande Council announced that “a new species of marine reptile from the ichthyosaur group, or ‘fish lizards, ’ which inhabited the region more than 190 million years ago, during the Lower ...
An 11-foot-long ichthyosaur named Fiona, preserved with her unborn baby and last meal, was discovered in Patagonia, Chile. This find is the only fully preserved pregnant ichthyosaur from the ...
Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study. It has been hotly debated ...
Life recovered rapidly at site of dino-killing asteroid: A hydrothermal system may have helped Date: April 8, 2025 Source: University of Texas at Austin Summary: About 66 million years ago, an ...
Lead author Judith Pardo-Pérez (left) with co-author Matt Malkowski in in Patagonia’s Torres del Paine National Park, where the ichthyosaur fossil was discovered. Credit: Matt Malkowski.
A company called Colossal Biosciences says it has revived an extinct species – the dire wolf. “On October 1, 2024, for the first time in human history, Colossal successfully restored a once ...
Skulls of herbivorous iguanodontids, and carnivorous spinosaurs, alongside casts of ichthyosaurs and Anning's plesiosaurus will join the skull of a woolly rhino. Early human artefacts such as ...