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World's oldest burial site found in S.Africa - scientists
AFP, Published on 06/06/2023
» MAROPENG, South Africa: Palaeontologists in South Africa said Monday they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behaviour.
Europe's 'largest predatory dinosaur' found by UK fossil hunter
AFP, Published on 09/06/2022
» PARIS - A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best fossil hunters was probably the largest predator ever to stalk Europe, scientists said on Thursday.
'Big John', world's largest triceratops, sells for 6.6mn euros
AFP, Published on 21/10/2021
» PARIS - "Big John", 66-million-years old and the largest triceratops skeleton ever unearthed at eight metres long, was sold at auction to a US collector on Thursday for a gargantuan 6.6 million euros.
Curators squeezed out by high dino bones price tag
AFP, Published on 21/10/2021
» PARIS - This week the largest triceratops skeleton ever unearthed goes up for auction in Paris -- but museum curators like Francis Duranthon can only dream of getting their hands on such a prize.
Niger museum is eclectic national 'mirror'
AFP, Published on 12/01/2021
» NIAMEY - There can be few museums in the world to rival the National Museum of Niger.
Mystery Antarctic fossil is massive egg
AFP, Published on 18/06/2020
» TOKYO: Scientists had nicknamed it "The Thing" - a mysterious football-sized fossil discovered in Antarctica that sat in a Chilean museum awaiting someone who could work out just what it was.
Giant penguins once lived in New Zealand
AFP, Published on 14/08/2019
» WELLINGTON: The fossilized remains of a huge penguin almost the size of an adult human have been found in New Zealand's South Island, scientists announced on Wednesday.
Fossil evidence of 'Herculean' parrot found in New Zealand
AFP, Published on 07/08/2019
» WELLINGTON: The remains of a super-sized parrot that stood more than half the height of an average human and roamed the earth 19 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand.
Crocs were once vegetarians
AFP, Published on 28/06/2019
» WASHINGTON: Crocodiles are sometimes described as living fossils for their close resemblance to their forebears who roamed the Earth during the age of the dinosaurs.
Anyone want to buy a dinosaur? Two on sale in Paris
AFP, Published on 10/04/2018
» PARIS - The skeletons of an allosaurus and a diplodocus are up for auction in Paris this week, marketed as hip interior design objects -- for those with big enough living rooms.