The mosquito fossil prop featured in the opening scene of Jurassic Park has sold for $403,200. The screen-matched item is the catalyst for the creation of the modern world dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster. Other highlights of Propstore’s Los Angeles Hollywood memorabilia auction included John Travolta’s iconic white suit from Saturday Night Fever selling … Read more
Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to paleontologists. The fossils unearthed by the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience feature a tracksite and apparent butt-dragging impression believed to have been made by a rock hyrax, … Read more
Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for millions of years. Researchers examining a 520-million-year-old arthropod larva were stunned to find not just an outline of the creature, but … 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
An amateur fossil hunter made a mammoth of a discovery. Chris Bien, 56, was taking a walk on a beach in Holland-on-Sea, Essex, England when she spotted a wavy line in the gravel near the water and realized she may have stumbled upon something special. “I saw it poking out and thought ‘It must be … 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 fossil hunter found a 450,000-year-old mammoth tusk while on a recent visit to a local quarry. Jamie Jordan, 33, was at a quarry in Cambridgeshire, near Peterborough, England, roughly 75 miles north of London, when he spotted something notable in the rubble. The four-foot-long mammoth tusk was “sticking out like a sore thumb,” he told SWNS. “I could … Read more
Fans want him to make their bed rock — thanks to his rock-hard abs and his rock-solid knowledge. Meet Fossil Daddy — a 36-year-old, queer paleontologist from Massachusetts who is using his platform to educate people about science and the study of fossils by using pop culture to break it all down — with a … 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