Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Four Places to Find Fossilized Shark Teeth in the United States
Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the ...
How did volcanism trigger climate change before the eruptions started?
A paper just published in Geology, led by Jennifer Kasbohm of the Carnegie Science’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, upends the idea that the eruptions triggered the warming while still blaming them for ...
A huge deposit of marine fossils found under San Pedro High School
San Pedro High School discovered a deposit of marine fossils on campus in 2022 and began collaborating with local ...
Construction Workers Dug Beneath a High School—and Stumbled Upon 200+ Ancient Species
A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN5d
9 million-year-old whale bones, megalodon shark teeth unearthed at LA school
Construction at San Pedro High School uncovers 9-million-year-old fossils, including whale bones, shark teeth, and ...
Friday essay: Giant shark megalodon was the most powerful superpredator ever. Why did it go extinct?
Megalodon, the giant shark species that disappeared around 3.6 million years ago, was the most ferocious creature that ever lived. What do we know about it?
Kākāpō Are The True Ancient Species Of New Zealand, Not The Kiwi Or The Takahē
Aotearoa New Zealand’s true ancient species are animals like Kākāpō, small wrens, bats and freshwater limpets, not recent ...
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Discover 8 of the Biggest Animals that Have Gone Extinct
Big animals are exciting. The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and ...
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9 Fascinating Seal Facts
In 2007, a nearly complete skeleton of a new semi-aquatic carnivore from an early Miocene lake deposit in Nunavut, Canada, was discovered and became known as an evolutionary link between land mamm ...