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Finding fossils can be a fact of life for construction crews excavating in California. That's what happened when crews broke ground to begin the new Bay Area Calaveras Dam in 2013. They just didn't expect to find so many.

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  • 500-Pound Prehistoric Bird Was a ‘Giga-Goose,’ Fossils Reveal
    The fossils revealed a unique face—quite different from any other living or extinct bird but most similar to a duck or a goose. This suggests Genyornis belongs in the Anseriformes: an order of birds ...
    06/3/2024 - 3:32 am | View Link
  • Meet the 'Giga-Goose,' a 500-Pound Ice Age Bird
    newtoni. Illustration: Jacob C. Blokland An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which ...
    06/2/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
  • Dinosaur footprints, fossils discovered ‘in our own backyard’ in Broomfield
    The Friday afternoon field trip was the result of Northglenn High School geology teacher Kent Hups stumbling across dinosaur fossils about three years ago while out scouting.
    06/2/2024 - 8:30 am | View Link
  • Prehistoric Puzzle Piece: Scientists Discover New Species of Dinosaur in Zimbabwe
    A new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic period has been discovered in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe. A new dinosaur species, Musankwa sanyatiensis, discovered in Zimbabwe, highlights th ...
    06/2/2024 - 7:11 am | View Link
  • 11 US National Parks where you can find fossils
    While fossils have been discovered at hundreds of parks, a handful of properties, which Santucci calls “Fossil Parks,” have been established primarily for their paleontological resources and provide ...
    06/2/2024 - 1:03 am | View Link
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