Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on June 2 revealed her department is withdrawing more than 336,000 acres of public land around Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico from oil and gas drilling for 20 years, building on an announcement from President Joe Biden in November 2021. “Today marks an important step in fulfilling President…
Tribes Divided Over 20-Year Halt to Oil and Gas Drilling in Chaco Canyon
June 2, 2023
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Curious Diner Makes Dinosaur Discovery in Chinese Restaurant
April 21, 2023
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A perceptive diner has spotted dinosaur footprints in a restaurant in southwestern China, with an international research team confirming that they belonged to the sauropod—a long-necked and small-headed herbivore. Hongtao Ou, a self-reported palaeontology buff, was having a meal at a restaurant in Leshan, Sichuan, when he found evenly divided craters on the floor and…
T. Rex Skeleton Sells for More Than $5 Million at Zurich Auction
BERN, Switzerland—Nearly 300 Tyrannosaurus rex bones that were dug up from three sites in the United States and assembled into a single skeleton sold Tuesday at an auction in Switzerland for 4.8 million francs ($5.3 million), below the expected price. Crafted into an open-mouth pose, the T. rex skeleton measuring 11.6 meters long (38 feet…
Long-Lost Ship Found in Lake Huron, Confirming Tragic Story
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel. The 191-foot (58-meter) cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton’s captain and six…
Archaeologists Uncover Rare 14th-Century Spanish Synagogue
MADRID—Archaeologists in the southern Spanish town of Utrera had uncovered a 14th-century synagogue hidden within a building that was later converted into a church, hospital and most recently a bar. Archaeologist Miguel Ángel de Dios told journalists that “the first thing to confirm is the presence of the prayer room” following years of analysis of…
Claim of Mammoth Bones Brings Treasure Hunters to NYC River
NEW YORK—Ask people what you might find buried in the muck at the bottom of New York City’s East River and they’d likely say “mob boss” before thinking of mammoth bones. But several groups of treasure hunters have taken to the waterway in recent weeks after hearing a guest on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast claim…
Israeli Archaeologists Excavating ‘Jesus Midwife’ Tomb
JERUSALEM—An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest of Jerusalem, the antiquities authority said Tuesday. The intricately decorated Jewish burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus in the…
New Marine Fossil Found in Outback Queensland
Three amateur palaeontologists have discovered the remains of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile at an outback Queensland station. In an Australian first, the complete skeleton of an ancient plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile, was discovered at a sprawling remote property in the McKinlay region in what has been described as the Rosetta Stone of marine…
Scientists Find Oldest Evidence of Controlled Use of Fire to Cook Food
The remains of fish analyzed by an international team of scientists found the earliest signs of cooking by humans dating 780,000 years ago, predating available data by about 600,000 years. The finding, published by Nature, was made by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), Tel Aviv University (TAU), and Bar-Ilan University (BIU), in…
2,700 Year-Old Rock Carvings Discovered in Iraq’s Mosul
BAGHDAD—Archaeologists in northern Iraq last week unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees from the Assyrian Empire, an archaeologist said Wednesday. The carvings on marble slabs were discovered by a team of experts in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, who have been working to restore the site of the ancient Mashki Gate, which was…
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