May 10, 2012 (TSR) - If the world ends on December 21, blame a German butterfingers who dropped a volcanic rock skull once owned by SS overlord Heinrich Himmler in his laboratory this week. According to legend, the Mayan skull, which was stolen from Tibet by the Nazis and imbued for believers with magical powers to [...]
BEIJING, Jan. 10, 2012 (TSR) — Paleontologists say several hundred fossilized footprints in a Beijing suburb are those of dinosaurs. The footprints, unearthed in a geological park in Yanqing county, are the first dinosaur traces the city has found, according to Zhang Jianping, researcher at the China University of Geosciences. They were left by dinosaurs [...]
There has been significant damage and destruction in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Some of these images can be found here. The Al Jazeera footage appears to show wooden statues from the tomb of Tutankhamun with the gilded figure of the king ripped from the smashed bases. Images below show the statues in their original [...]
A shield-toothed horse-dragon may sound like a mythical creature, but the newly described dinosaur once roamed the U.S. West, a new study says. The 125-million-year-old herbivore Hippodraco scutodens—whose partial skull and skeleton were unearthed in 2004 in eastern Utah—has a long, low skull like a horse’s and a mouth filled with shield-shaped teeth. Hippo and draco are Latin [...]
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