While scouring the glacial till that comprises England’s eastern coastal cliffs, a pair of Yorkshire fossil hunters made a colossal discovery some 180 million years in the making. Late last summer, Mark Kemp, 34, a self-taught, professional fossil finder and preparator, and a friend who shares the pastime were exploring the rugged cliffline of Holderness, northwest…
Fossil Hunters Unearth Enormous Jaws and Teeth of 180-Million-Year-Old Predatory Sea Reptile: The Ichthyosaur
Paleontologists Extract 30 Preserved Titanosaur Eggs From 2-Ton Fossilized Dinosaur Nest in Northern Spain
January 6, 2022
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A team of paleontologists last fall completed the extraction of two dinosaur nests containing some 30 fossilized titanosaur eggs at a site in Loarre, in northern Spain—the continuation of an earlier 2020 campaign. The fossil gathering project was led by the Aragosaurus-IUCA Group of the University of Zaragoza and the Portuguese NOVA University Lisbon, with…
Scientists ‘Virtually Unwrap’ Exceptional 3,500-Year-Old Mummy of Amenhotep I With CT Scans, Revealing Ancient Mystery
January 4, 2022
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A wrapped mummy of novel quality and exceptional appearance, whose burial rites were preserved from millennia ago, has now been unwrapped—not by hand but virtually, using cutting-edge CT scans and 3D modeling software—revealing mysteries of the ancient kings of Egypt. In 1902, among the royal mummies moved to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was Amenhotep I,…
Mountain Climber Finds 6,000 Gemstones Worth $340,000 on French Mountain Where Plane Crashed in 1966
January 4, 2022
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In the decades after the 1966 crash of an Air India plane on Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France, the mountain’s ice and snow have been yielding bits of debris, such as photos, old newspapers, and in 1986 even a piece of a landing gear. Then in 2013, a French mountain climber in his 20s made…
Researchers Find Fossilized Egg Containing Remains of World’s Most Complete Baby Dinosaur Embryo
A fossilized egg has been found to contain the remains of the world’s most complete baby dinosaur just before hatching. The exquisitely preserved embryo was “lying like a bird” in a distinctive tucking posture. It died about 70 million years ago—and was about to hatch. The head is below the body, with the feet on…
Experts Open Time Capsule Found at Gen. Lee Statue Site
RICHMOND, Va.—Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital Tuesday pulled books, coins, ammunition, documents, and other artifacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The lead conservator for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Kate Ridgway, said that the measurements and material…
Metal Detectorists Uncover Largest Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Gold Coins in England, Dating Back 1,400 Years
December 27, 2021
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A hoard of 131 gold coins and a number of other gold objects dating back 1,400 years ago stand to be the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins ever found in England. In A.D. 600, England, still ununited, was divided into several smaller Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. One of the most important of these was East Angles…
Man in Rutland, UK, Stumbles on 700-Year-Old Roman Mosaic of Achilles and Ancient Villa in Farmer’s Field
On his father’s farm in Rutland, Jim Irving and his family were out walking when he spotted a few bits of ancient pottery scattered on the ground. Further investigation into this led to the discovery of an extraordinary 700-year-old Roman mosaic, depicting Achilles and the Trojan War from The Iliad, and the remains of an…
Man in Rutland, UK, Stumbles on 1700-Year-Old Roman Mosaic of Achilles and Ancient Villa in Farmer’s Field
On his father’s farm in Rutland, Jim Irving and his family were out walking when he spotted a few bits of ancient pottery scattered on the ground. Further investigation into this led to the discovery of an extraordinary 1700-year-old Roman mosaic, depicting Achilles and the Trojan War from The Iliad, and the remains of an…
Mystery Lingers Around Time Capsule Found Beneath Lee Statue
RICHMOND, Va.—A rust-colored 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope, and a silver coin were found Wednesday in a time capsule that lay hidden beneath a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Virginia for more than 130 years. As intriguing as the water-damaged items were, they’re not what many were expecting to see after…
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