SNOWMASS VILLAGE (AP).- Scientists say an excavation site in western Colorado has unearthed fossils for ice age mastodons of all ages. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science said Friday they’ve found the skull of an infant mastodon, the skull of a juv…
Italian Researchers Start Search in Florence for Bones of Likely Mona Lisa Model
FLORENCE.- Italian researchers on Wednesday began looking for the remains of a Renaissance woman many believed posed for the “Mona Lisa.” The researchers used a geo-radar device to search for underground tombs in a Florence convent where Lisa Gherardin…
Exhibition at American Museum of Natural History Reveals How Dinosaurs Actually Lived
NEW YORK, NY.- The huge dinosaurs called sauropods astound us. So massive! So tall! Such long necks and tiny heads! But more astounding is this: these strange giants rank among Earth’s great success stories, roaming the planet for 140 million year…
Italian Researchers Announce Hunt in Florence for Remains of Possible Mona Lisa Model
ROME (AP).- Italian researchers said Tuesday they will dig up bones in a Florence convent to try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman long believed to be the model for the “Mona Lisa.” If successful, the research might help ascertain the ide…
Scientists from the George C. Page Museum Dig for Ice Age Fossils in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP).- With a dental pick in hand, Karin Rice delicately scraped off a clump of asphalt from a pelvic bone belonging to a horse that roamed Los Angeles tens of thousands of years ago. Like many unsuspecting creatures of the last Ice Age…
Earliest Human Remains in United States Arctic Reported by Scientific Researchers
WASHINGTON (AP).- Some 11,500 years ago one of America’s earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settle…
Dinosaur Exhibit Makes World Premiere in Ohio at the Cincinnati Museum Center
CINCINNATI, OHIO (AP).- A fossilized nest of eggs laid by an unknown species of dinosaur is part of an exhibit that makes its world premiere Friday at an Ohio museum. The exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center will feature fossils found by Chinese pal…
Dinosaur Exhibit Makes World Premiere in Ohio at the Cincinnati Museum Center
CINCINNATI, OHIO (AP).- A fossilized nest of eggs laid by an unknown species of dinosaur is part of an exhibit that makes its world premiere Friday at an Ohio museum. The exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center will feature fossils found by Chinese pal…
Peru President Alan Garcia Says Yale University to Return Thousands of Inca Artifacts
LIMA (AP).- Peru’s president announced Friday that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken away from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago. The university issued a statement a few hours later expressing satisf…
California Utility Stumbles on 1.4 Million-Year-Old Fossils
RIVERSIDE (AP).- A utility company preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years that researchers say will fill in blanks in Southern California’s …