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UK seizes dinosaur bones in money laundering case
Bloomberg News, Published on 05/11/2025
» LONDON - British police have seized more than £12 million ($15.6 million) worth of dinosaur skeletons after agreeing to a settlement with a Chinese man suspected of being part a huge money-laundering scandal.
US firm brought back extinct dire wolves
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» WASHINGTON — They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively -- they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a daring project to resuscitate an extinct species.
UK to host Europe's first Universal theme park
AFP, Published on 09/04/2025
» LONDON — Universal will build its first European theme park in Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday, unveiling a mega deal which could create thousands of jobs and attract millions of tourists.
'Appetite for drumsticks': First prey found in a tyrannosaur stomach
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» PARIS - Prey has been discovered inside the stomach of a tyrannosaur skeleton for the first time, scientists said Friday, revealing that the mighty dinosaurs had an "appetite for drumsticks" when they were young.
Russian billionaire touts woolly mammoths as climate fix
Bloomberg, Published on 03/12/2023
» Andrey Melnichenko, a Russian billionaire who made a fortune in coal and fertiliser then found himself sanctioned after the invasion of Ukraine, now has a plan to stem methane emissions from the thawing Siberian permafrost: recreating a time when woolly mammoths roamed the tundra.
Opposites attract: 'Barbenheimer' double debut to rock US, Canada
AFP, Published on 21/07/2023
» WASHINGTON - An iconic doll ready to paint the world pink and the scientist who helped invent the atomic bomb -- an unlikely pair and apparently a match made in box office heaven.
Those protruding T Rex teeth? They were covered by lips: study
AFP, Published on 31/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Sorry, "Jurassic Park" and toymakers everywhere.
T-Rex skeleton wows Singaporeans before auction
Published on 28/10/2022
» SINGAPORE: The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex drew thousands of visitors in Singapore on Friday eager to have a look at the huge fossil before it heads for auction in Hong Kong.
Skeleton of huge dinosaur unearthed in Portugal
AFP, Published on 29/08/2022
» LISBON - Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilised skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.
'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.