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Why do chickens have two legs and why does ice crackle in water? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK

Jawbone fossil builds richer image of ancient Denisovans

Fossil found off Taiwan coast adds to picture of enigmatic human species having a prominent jaw with huge teeth

The Guardian - UK

Ancient jawbone found on seafloor belongs to mysterious group of human ancestors

The partial jawbone was first recovered when a fishing operation dredged the seafloor

The Independent UK

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The film fans who remade Jurassic Park: how an Australian town got behind a $3,000 ‘mockbuster’

Jurassic Park: Castlemaine Redux is a shot-for-shot labour of love made with amateur actors, beanbag dinosaurs and an army of volunteers. Three years later it is finished – and ‘bigger than Ben-Hur’

The Guardian - AU

People Are Sharing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Totally True, Here Are 28 Of The Most Baffling Ones

We live many times closer to the last dinosaur than the first and last dinosaur did to each other. Let that sink in for a little bit.

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Jurassic World's Scarlett Johansson says Rebirth will make the franchise scary again – and one behind-closed-doors scene already proves she's not bluffing

Jurassic World Rebirth is making dinos scary again

Total Film

Secrets of dinosaur gathering revealed by newly discovered footprints

Footprints found on the Isle of Skye show herbivores and carnivores gathered 167 million years ago

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Rare dinosaur tracks found on Skye help researchers make exciting new discovery

RESEARCHERS have discovered that carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs “mingled” amongst each other 167 million years ago after finding rare…

The National (Scotland)

Dinosaur tracks uncovered at site of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s refuge

Jacobite leader was ‘sprinting in the footsteps’ of megalosaurs after escaping to the Isle of Skye in 1746

The Guardian - UK

‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex

The Guardian - US

Scientists discover dinosaur-era wasp that used its rear end to kill

The parasitic wasp has been found encased in 99-million-year-old amber

The Independent UK

Rewriting the rules of luxury travel

"Pura Vida" isn't just a slogan

Salon

How weird fossils created by human garbage may baffle future civilisations

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

Radio France Internationale

Bizarre ‘exquisitely preserved’ two-clawed dinosaur found in China

Loss of digits evolved independently in several dinosaur lineages, scientists say

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The Guardian - UK

José María Velasco review – proudly dull Mexican was wasted in wonderland

The 19th-century artist worked at a time when the Americas were a wonderland of discovery – but his unromantic, objective view of ancient rocky formations is sadly quite boring

The Independent UK

James Monroe’s Oak Hill estate has historic roots. Some hope to preserve it as a Virginia park

One of President James Monroe's Virginia estates is up for sale and the family that owns the property wants to make it a state park

The Guardian - UK

Prehistoric ideas about dinosaurs and children

Letters: Dr Nick Crumpton and Paul O’Shea respond to an article by Isabel Losada on teaching young people about ‘real, living’ animals, instead of dinosaurs and unicorns

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s a history lesson’: fossil fish up to 16m years old found perfectly preserved in central NSW

Fossils retain microscopic structural features including stomach contents and provide first detailed evidence in Australia for fish called Osmeriformes

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What happens under your eyelids when you blink? Try our kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Conversation

Beavers can help us adapt to climate change – here’s how

Beavers, those iron-toothed rodents with a talent for hydraulic engineering, can legally return to English river catchments after an absence of 500 years.

The Guardian - UK

Richard Fortey obituary

Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum who was also a bestselling science writer and accomplished TV presenter

The Guardian - UK

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead

Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada

The Independent UK

Million-year-old face fossil sheds new light on ancient human migrations

Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old

The Guardian - UK

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain

Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers say

International Business Times

Trove Of Dinosaur Footprints Found At Australian School

A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, scientists said on Wednesday.

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