Gray Fossil Site and Museum looking for summer volunteers
April 21, 2022 GMTJOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — The Gray Fossil Site and Museum in East Tennessee is looking for help as paleontologists excavate and preserve fossils this summer.
People interested in volunteering can attend a session at the museum from 10 a.m.
Extinct shark named after LSU museum official as she retires
December 24, 2021 GMTBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State University museum official has received a unique retirement gift -- researchers in Alabama and South Carolina named a prehistoric shark species after her.
Study: 2.5 billion T. rex roamed Earth, but not all at once
April 15, 2021 GMTOne Tyrannosaurus rex seems scary enough. Now picture 2.5 billion of them. That’s how many of the fierce dinosaur king probably roamed Earth over the course of a couple million years, a new study finds...
‘Dueling dinosaurs’ fossils donated to North Carolina museum
November 17, 2020 GMTRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The fossil skeletons of two dinosaurs intertwined in what looks like a final death match have been donated to a North Carolina museum...
Fossil found in 1980s in Texas declared new genus, species
July 16, 2019 GMTBIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (AP) — Experts say fossil remains discovered in the 1980s at the Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas have been identified as a new genus and species of duckbilled dinosaur...
Teen finds prehistoric mastodon jaw in southern Iowa
May 17, 2019 GMTIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A teen searching for arrowheads in southern Iowa found something much bigger: the prehistoric jawbone of a mastodon.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the 30-inch bone belonged to a juvenile mastodon, an elephant-like animal believed to have roamed Iowa some 34,000 years ago.
Meet the T. rex cousin who you could literally look down on
May 6, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — History's most frightening dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus rex, came from a long line of pipsqueaks...
Texas doctor fights to keep dinosaur skull seized by feds
November 21, 2018 GMTFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A doctor in Texas with a passion for paleontology is challenging the federal government after authorities seized a 70 million-year-old dinosaur skull from his fossil collection...
China building boom uncovers buried dinosaurs, makes a star
October 26, 2018 GMTYANJI, China (AP) — At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face, where paleontologists scrape away 100 million-year-old rock in search of prehistoric bones...
Resurrecting history
August 1, 2018 GMTBUTTE COUNTY — Imagine being the first person to set eyes upon a piece of history that has been buried for more than 65 million years. That is what local paleontologist Walter “Raptorman” Stein and his wife Heather Stein offer curious explorers from around the world.
Rare dinosaur discovery in Egypt could signal more finds
February 6, 2018 GMTMANSOURA, Egypt (AP) — A skeleton has been unearthed in Egypt's Western Desert, where ancient sands have long helped preserve remains, but unlike most finds this one isn't a mummy — it's a dinosaur...
New dinosaur looks like odd mix of duck, croc, ostrich, swan
December 6, 2017 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — With a bill like a duck but teeth like a croc's, a swanlike neck and killer claws, a new dinosaur species uncovered by scientists looks like something Dr...
Meet the new heavyweight champion of dinosaurs: Patagotitan
August 8, 2017 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — A study proclaims a newly named species the heavyweight champion of all dinosaurs, making the scary Tyrannosaurus rex look like a munchkin...
Correction: Dino Discovery story
April 17, 2017 GMTMOAB, Utah (AP) — In a story April 14 about a newly named dinosaur, The Associated Press erroneously attached photos from a different fossil dig in Utah...
Hunter’s find leads to discovery of prehistoric sea creature
April 13, 2017 GMTHELENA, Mont. (AP) — A fossil found by an elk hunter in Montana nearly seven years ago has led to the discovery of a new species of prehistoric sea creature that lived about 70 million years ago in the inland sea that flowed east of the Rocky Mountains...