🦖 Dinosaurs and Ancient Life
Scientists discover the first diplodocus ever found outside North AmericaA 150-million-year-old fossil from Spain is the first confirmed Diplodocus found outside North America.- 🦕 Scientists found bones from a giant dinosaur called Diplodocus in Spain.
- 🌎 Before this, Diplodocus bones had only ever been found in North America.
- 📏 This dinosaur was about 25 metres long, roughly as long as two buses.
- 🦴 Scientists studied its tail bones closely to know for sure what dinosaur it was.
- 🌉 The discovery suggests dinosaurs once travelled between America and Europe long ago.
First known adult T rex footprints found in North DakotaFour giant footprints form the first known adult T rex trackway found in North Dakota.- 🦖 Scientists found real T. rex footprints in North Dakota for the very first time.
- 👣 There are four giant footprints in a row, showing the dinosaur was on a walk.
- 📏 Each footprint is about 3 feet long, roughly the size of a small child.
- 🚶 Scientists think the T. rex was walking about as fast as a person does.
- 🎉 A schoolteacher who loves museums was the one who first spotted the footprints.
Tiny 40,000 year old bird carvings found in a German caveEarly humans carved the thumbnail sized birds from mammoth ivory.- 🦅 Archaeologists found two tiny bird statues carved from mammoth ivory in a cave in Germany!
- 🪨 The birds are super old, about 40,000 years old, and were carved by early humans.
- 📢 Scientists announced the discovery on Thursday, July 30th.
- 👆 One little bird is only about the size of your thumbnail, the smallest ever found at that cave!
- 🎨 Experts say the tiny carvings show just how skilled ancient artists really were.
A million year old time capsule in New ZealandAncient bird and frog bones were found in a cave, including a new parrot.- 🦴 Scientists have found amazing hidden treasure deep inside a cave in New Zealand, but instead of gold, it was ancient animal bones!
- 🐸 The bones belonged to birds and frogs that lived around ONE MILLION years ago, which is almost impossible to imagine.
- 🌋 Researchers found the fossils perfectly preserved between two layers of volcanic ash inside a cave near Waitomo, on the North Island.
- 🦜 One of the most exciting finds was a brand new type of parrot, a relative of the famous kākāpō, that no one had ever seen before.
- 🧩 Scientists say this fills in a giant missing piece of New Zealand's animal history that had puzzled them for a very long time.
