A Burrowing Dinosaur? More Evidence from Utah Suggests that Some Dinos Were Happier Underground

nnPaleontologists recently identified a dinosaur that is believed to have lived at least partially underground—demonstrating that dinosaurs successfully exploited every kind of habitat available to them.nnFona herzogae lived 99 million years ago and possesses a skeleton that bears many hallmarks of animals that burrow.nnDiscovered in Utah by paleontologists from North Carolina State University and the North […]

Archaeologists Find Remarkable Marble Statue of Greek God Hermes in Ancient Sewer

nnBulgarian archaeologists undertaking routine excavations found something that was anything but routine in an ancient sewer system.nnA pristine marble statue of the messenger god Hermes, perhaps buried to protect it from overzealous Christianized Romans, was located in the sewers of Heraclea Sintica, a lesser-known ancient site near the border with Greece.nnThe Greco-Bulgarian border region was […]