Fossils
Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Fossils, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 336 stories have been published about Fossils which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Fossils, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 336 stories have been published about Fossils which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Business · New YorkChristie’s has decided not to auction off the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Shen amid questions about how many of the bones are replicas of another T. rex known as Stan. Shen was expected to fetch up to $30 million at a sale in Hong Kong before the group that owns intellectual property rights to Stan noticed similarities and suggested copies of Stan’s bones were being used to fill in gaps in Shen’s skeleton.See the Story
Christie’s Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for ‘Further Study’
39% Right coverage: 18 sources
Europe · CornwallHuman remains found on the north coast of Cornwall may have been from a shipwrecked sailor who died more than 200 years ago, experts have said.See the Story
Human remains found on Cornish coast may be of shipwrecked sailor who died over 200 years ago, say experts
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US & Canada · TampaTeachers Rick Cochrane and Henry Sadler discovered jaw bone and tusks. Mastodons once inhabited North and Central America until their extinction. Pair have donated fossils to the Florida Museum of Natural History in the past. They display Mammoth mandible and massive Mammoth leg bone in classrooms.See the Story
St. Petersburg teachers make ‘rare’ Ice Age fossil discovery
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FossilsPaleontologists say environmental DNA is not always helpful in identifying when animals like mammoths went extinct because genetic material found in sediment could have come from animals that died thousands of years earlier.See the Story
Mammoth problem with extinction timeline: Mammoth DNA found in sediments likely came from long-dead animals
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AnimalsMore than 50 animal species previously thought to be mute actually communicate vocally, according to a study published on Tuesday which suggested the trait may have evolved in a common ancestor over…See the Story
Recordings show some 'mute' animals communicate vocally: study
Coverage: 5 sources
Fish · City of PerthResearchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart preserved inside a fossilised prehistoric fish. They say the specimen captures a key moment in the evolution of the blood-pumping organ found in all back-boned animals, including humans.See the Story
World's oldest heart found in prehistoric fish
48% Center coverage: 23 sources
Business · Tel Aviv DistrictEarly human ancestors living 780,000 years ago liked their fish well done, Israeli researchers have revealed, in what they said was the earliest evidence of fire being used to cook.See the Story
Fish fossils show first cooking may have been 600,000 years earlier than thought
60% Center coverage: 5 sources
US & Canada · New YorkA Tyrannosaurus rex skull discovered in South Dakota is expected to sell for between $15 and $20m (£13m-£17m) when it is auctioned next month in New York, Sotheby’s has said.See the Story
T rex skull unearthed in South Dakota to be auctioned in NY
63% Center coverage: 89 sources
Europe · LondonThe world's oldest mammal has been identified using fossil dental records -- predating the previously confirmed earliest mammal by about 20 million years -- in a new discovery hailed as "very significant" by researchers.See the Story
A shrew-like creature that lived 225 million years ago is the oldest mammal ever identified
50% Center coverage: 4 sources
