If everything you know about the Biggest Little City (pop: 275K) you learned from a certain “Cops” parody on Comedy Central, here’s a crash course on doing the college town right, post-ski rat season. Triple play Enjoy nights at the round table. Reno-Tahoe Beautifully backdropped by the High Eastern Sierra foothills, Reno’s the Row is … Read more
About 66 million years ago, the Tyrannosaurus rex roamed around Earth terrifying nature around it. Now, one of the largest predators ever to live on land can be your next purse. Researchers and bioengineers are working to create the next cruelty-free and sustainable luxury handbag using lab-grown leather from fossilized T. rex remains from the … Read more
People have long turned to Hollywood stars for diet ideas — it just hasn’t usually been the stars of “Jurassic Park.” But TikTok user @sahmthingsup has inspired countless social media users to do just that. In an effort to get more greens into her diet, she came up with “dinosaur time” — an admittedly silly … Read more
Welcome to Jurassic Parkway. Paleontologists recently discovered lines of strange indentations inside a quarry in England were actually dinosaur footprints from millions of years ago. The discovery was made after a site worker reported “unusual bumps.” A nearly 500-foot path roamed by the massive prehistoric creatures was discovered in Oxfordshire, near London. Massive dinosaur tracks … Read more
A 150-million-year-old, $45 million Stegosaurus fossil known as Apex will make its debut at the American Museum of Natural History this weekend. It will be displayed among the museum’s dinosaur skeletons beginning on Sunday, Dec. 8, and will remain at the New York City location for the next four years. After that, a cast of Apex … Read more
More than 260 dinosaur footprints discovered in Brazil and Cameroon provide further evidence that South America and Africa were once connected as part of a giant continent millions of years ago, according to a recent study. Scientists estimated that the footprints were originally made 120 million years ago about 600 miles apart, or roughly the distance between Dallas and … Read more
This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of the weirdest and most reality-shifting moments in science. On Feb. 20, 1824, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society in London, the world was introduced to the very first dinosaur: the megalosaurus. Life-size prehistoric dinosaurs at Britain’s Crystal Palace Park. Heritage Images/Getty Images Before a … Read more
Fangs for the memories. The tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t the first toothy predator on earth. 40 million years before dinosaurs became the world’s apex predators, there existed a human-sized salamander with four-inch fangs, according to an eye-opening study published in the journal “Nature.” A fossilized skeleton of the amphibian was unearthed in Nambia by scientists from … Read more
Call it a dinomite discovery. A Long Island professor is among researchers who discovered a new dinosaur species in Zimbabwe — the fourth ever uncovered in the African nation. Stony Brook University professor Kimi Chapelle played a pivotal role in finding fossils of this lengthy-necked herbivore, called a sauropodomorph dino, which inhabited the area 210 … Read more
Call it shovel and pail-eontology. Three North Dakota boys made the extraordinary discovery of a highly rare Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that could change what we know about dinosaurs. Now, the achievement of the young brothers Liam and Jessin Fisher and their cousin Kaiden Madsen is being immortalized in a documentary narrated by “Jurassic Park” star … Read more
Wood you believe it? Scientists have confirmed the existence of the world’s oldest surviving forest — and the ancient, secret spot is only a short drive from the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple. First discovered at the bottom of an abandoned quarry near the town of Cairo in the Catskill Mountains back in … Read more
A new study argues that a real-life “Jurassic World” could currently exist, just on another planet. Planets far away from Earth could be harboring species that resemble Earth’s dinosaurs and humans may currently have the ability to find them, according to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society journal. … Read more
One of the most impressively complete dinosaur fossils ever recovered is getting an autopsy. Big Al the Allosaurus, a 150-million-year-old resident of Wyoming, recovered 30 years ago and currently 95% complete, will be fully examined by experts at the Museum of The Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, in hopes of fully understanding “the record of its … Read more
A new study looking into what might have killed off dinosaurs determined that it is likely the ancient species were done in by a mighty cloud of dust. A massive plume of fine-grained dust may have lingered in Earth’s atmosphere for 15 years, cooled the temperature by 24 degrees and shut down photosynthesis for two … Read more
These carnivores were classic — well before Jurassic. A new archeological study has uncovered further evidence of the apex predators said to have “dominated” the Earth 40 million years ahead of the dinosaurs, “as the biggest and most bloodthirsty meat eater” of that era. A nearly complete skull of the Pampaphoneus biccai, estimated to be … Read more
“The Flintstones” may now be considered historical fiction. A new paper published in the journal Current Biology suggests that human ancestors lived with dinosaurs for a short time before the reptilian beasts went extinct. An in-depth analysis of the fossil record for placental mammals — the group including humans, dogs and bats — has provided … Read more
NEW YORK — The Tyrannosaurus rex is often shown baring massive, sharp teeth, like the ferocious creature in “Jurassic Park.” But new research suggests that this classic image might be wrong. The teeth on T. rex and other big theropods were likely covered by scaly lips, concludes a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The … Read more
What’s up, croc? Scientists have discovered an ancient species known to be the “sister” of modern-day crocodiles, according to a new study. The pre-historic predator, Turnersuchus hingleyae, was found incredibly preserved off the Jurassic Coast of Dorset, England. The fossil is the most complete of the “marine crocodiles” to be recovered from 185 million years ago … Read more
She’ll give you three good reasons to love her peculiar appendages. A woman born with three-fingered “dino hands” has revealed the upside of having only six digits — which include retrieving coins from couches and getting major discounts at nail salons. Videos describing the pros of the courageous gal’s cartoonish condition are currently blowing up … Read more
Not a bad look for 152 million years old. German scientists might’ve made paleontological history after unearthing a “perfectly preserved” 152 million-year-old dinosaur fossil — which is believed to be the oldest specimen of the species ever discovered. The groundbreaking finding occurred in 2014, but was only recently documented in the journal Fossil Records. “The … Read more