Month: February 2020

Nearly $1 million worth of shark fins were seized in Miami, Florida, after the boxes they were hidden in were intercepted by US government officials. About 1,400 pounds of shark fins were found hidden in 18 boxes on Monday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a news release. The fins, which arrived at

Allosaurus was a fierce predator at the top of the dinosaur food chain millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex claimed its “king of the dinosaurs” title and researchers have now discovered the earliest known species of Allosaurus. The new species, Allosaurus jimmadseni, has been revealed at the Natural History Museum of Utah, home to the

A magnitude 5 earthquake on Tuesday struck Puerto Rico, where people are still on edge from a series of quakes after last month’s deadly 6.4 temblor. It was the 11th earthquake of at least that size in the past 30 days, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake’s center was 13 miles southeast of

Sand dunes are inanimate objects, so they don’t think or feel, but they can communicate with their neighbors and let them know they need space, according to research published by scientists at Cambridge University. The scientists made the discovery after putting two identical piles of sand in a special, 6.5 feet (2 meters) across rotating

Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old Neolithic well in eastern Europe, which they believe is the oldest wooden structure in the world. The square well was built with oak by farmers around 5256 B.C., according to researchers who pinpointed its origin after analyzing the tree rings in the wood, which is the scientific method known as