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A rare fossil and a duck skull make an appearance at the AMNH

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A nine-year-old girl patiently looked on while a technician pulled up a scan of her specimen. A 3D skull with a pointy beak popped up on the computer screen. The child, wearing clear frame glasses and a light grey tee with a sequined star on the fron...

Chocolate Dinosaur Fossils: Jurassic Hershey Park

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If you have a sweet tooth for dinosaurs and prehistoric fossils, food artist Sarah Hardy sells these cool chocolate fossils. At present, you can choose from a T. Rex tooth made from Ecuadorian milk chocolate and a Megalodon shark tooth made from 72% dark chocolate.

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Both of these chocolate treats are accurate replicas of actual fossils which are then hand painted. Chocolate and dinosaurs. Two of my favorite things. One can eat me and I can eat the other. That’s the food chain for ya.
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They make a fun gift if you know a dinosaur fan with a sweet tooth, who wants to eat another sweet tooth.

[via Incredible Things]

500 Million Years Old Creature is Unearthed in Morocco

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The strange creature has a cigar-like shape and is about 520 million years old. It has been termed the Helicocystis moroccoensis. The bizarre beast was dug up from the depths in Morocco. According to...

Alt-week 9.29.12: 3D pictures of the moon, 4D clocks and laser-controlled worms

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Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

Altweek 92912 3D pictures of the moon, 4D clocks and lasercontrolled worms

Dimensions, they're like buses. You wait for ages, and then three come along at once. And then another one right after that. While that might be about where the analogy ends, this week sees us off to the moon, where we then leap from the third, right into the fourth. Once there, we'll learn how we could eventually be controlled by lasers, before getting up close and personal with a 300 million-year old bug. Sound like some sort of psychedelic dream? Better than that, this is alt-week.

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