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Renowned British chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
AFP, Published on 02/10/2025
» WASHINGTON - British primatologist Jane Goodall, who transformed the study of chimpanzees and became one of the world's most prominent wildlife advocates, has died at the age of 91, her institute announced Wednesday.
Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate
AFP, Published on 13/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen from the heavens.
Fossil’s 3 eyes are not its most surprising feature
New York Times, Published on 14/05/2025
» NEW YORK - More than 500 million years ago a three-eyed predator chased prey through seas of the Cambrian Period. Once it caught its quarry, a pair of spine-covered grasping claws and a circular mouth covered in teeth would finish the job.
'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.
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.
'Death shadow' dinosaur unearthed in Argentina
AFP, Published on 04/05/2022
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentine paleontologists have announced the discovery of an apex-predator dinosaur that measured three stories from nose to tail and eviscerated its prey with sharp, curved claws.
36-million-year-old whale fossil found in Peruvian desert
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» LIMA: Paleontologists unveiled the fossilized remains of an ancient whale that inhabited the seas 36 million years ago, found last year in a Peruvian desert.
Dissolved in toxic oceans: how an ancient extinction happened
Lucas Joel of the New York Times, Published on 04/02/2022
» NEW YORK: About 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from New York formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea.
'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.
An extinct tree-climbing kangaroo in a 'treeless plain'
AFP, Published on 24/03/2021
» PARIS - The most remarkable thing about the nearly perfect fossils was not that they belonged to 40-kilo kangaroos that mysteriously evolved to climb trees, though that was remarkable enough.