Latest articles by Pete Buchholz

fossils
over 2 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Fire guts Rio’s natural history museum

Firefighters battled an enormous blaze for hours at one of the world’s largest natural history museums, housed in Rio de Janeiro’s former Imperial Palace. Museum staff even ran into the building to salvage some of the millions of objects from the natural world and human civilization in Brazil. Their combined efforts were not enough and by most accounts, nearly the entire collection was lost.
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fossils
over 2 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Late-living kin of iconic Burgess Shale worm found in England

Scientists have found a relative of the famous “dream maker” of the Cambrian Explosion, Hallucigenia. Instead of a back covered in spines, it was covered in a carpet of flower-shaped ornaments.
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fossils
over 2 years ago by Pete Buchholz

The colorful world of the trilobites

Far more than bumpy black blobs scuttling on the ocean floor, trilobites could be found throughout the water column, even venturing out on the beach at low tide. Their own excellent eyesight and need to camouflage against predators probably meant trilobites came in a variety of colors and patterns, like today’s crustaceans.
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fossils
almost 3 years ago by Pete Buchholz

New pterosaur exhibit on display in Southwest Oregon

Over the past few months the team here at Earth Archives and Pteros has been working hard on something special, and we couldn’t be more proud. This week marks the opening of a new museum exhibit, “Pterosaurs: Ancient Rulers of the Sky,” at ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum in Ashland, Oregon.
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humans
almost 3 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Canadian footprints support a coastal route for the first Americans

Soils from an ancient meadow on a small island on the central coast of British Columbia preserve footprints of early Native Americans. Although most of the northern Pacific Coast was a wall of glacial ice at the time, pockets of forested land accessible by boat allowed early migrants to survive and thrive.
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