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Crocodile resembling a greyhound dog lived on Earth roughly 215 million years ago
54+ min ago (830+ words) A fast, land-running relative of crocodiles has emerged from a 215-million-year-old fossil found in England nearly 60 years ago. That animal changes early croc evolution by showing these hunters were already splitting into different running styles before the end-Triassic die-off. In…...
Nature Notes: Diversity is natural
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (335+ words) Teton Valley News This week we are going to rely more on pictures than text, hoping that a picture is worth a thousand words. Recently Joyce Mears provided an interesting image to Teton Valley News to learn if what she…...
Ancient "octopus" fossil is actually a different species
4+ hour, 18+ min ago (683+ words) The fossil is actually a species related to a modern Nautilus, a multi-tentacled animal with an external shell. (Dr. Thomas Clements via SWNS) A 300-million-year-old fossil hailed as the world's oldest "octopus" has turned out to be something else altogether....
Scientists Identify 35-Meter Dinosaur Behind 110 Perfectly Preserved Footprints, Forming Longest Trackway Ever
4+ hour, 57+ min ago (482+ words) A mysterious line of giant footprints has emerged in eastern France, preserved for millions of years. At first glance they seem simple, yet researchers say they hold clues that go far beyond their shape. A 508-foot trail of fossilized dinosaur…...
The oldest breath: A 300-million-year-old mummy reveals the origins of how amniotes breathe
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (193+ words) image: 289-million-year-old reptile Captorhinus in its death pose in a cave system. Oil seepages, hyper-mineralized water, fine clays in this cave made it an ideal environment formummification and fossilization of soft tissues like skin, cartilage, and protein remnants. view more…...
This Arizona trail is like a real-life Jurassic Park with actual dinosaur tracks
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (1706+ words) Hidden just off US-160 near Tuba City, Arizona, the Navajo Moenave Dinosaur Tracks site is one of the most jaw-dropping roadside stops in the entire Southwest. Around 200 million years ago, real dinosaurs walked across soft, muddy ground here, leaving behind…...
Science Under the Stars: An Evening with Biodiversity Researchers
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (238+ words) Rebecca Clemons is a graduate student studying the evolution of immunity in amphibians and understanding how amphibian immune systems respond to pathogens." Rebecca will be running the amphibian disease activity. This activity explores how frogs face tradeoffs between being able…...
Captorhinus aguti [IMAGE] | Eurek Alert! Science News Releases
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (69+ words) Captorhinus aguti (IMAGE)Eurek Alert! Illustrated whole body skeletal diagram in left side viewdepicting the cartilaginous components in yellow that are described for the firsttime in thisstudy. Reisz et al. (Nature 2026) diagram altered from Heaton & Reisz (1980). Heaton, M. J. & Reisz, R. R. A skeletal…...
Oldest Fossil Octopus" Wasn"t One After All
3+ hour, 40+ min ago (437+ words) Pohlsepia mazonensis, a cephalopod species first described in 2000 from a 300-million-year-old specimen and featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest octopus, has been reclassified as a distant relative of nautiluses, reshaping paleontologists' timeline for when octopuses…...
Scientists Unearthed an Exceptionally Well-Preserved 10-Meter Dinosaur Skull Beneath the Sands of a Chinese Desert
6+ hour, 56+ min ago (526+ words) Buried for millions of years beneath the sands of northwestern China, an extraordinary dinosaur skull fossil has quietly waited to be uncovered. A new dinosaur species has been identified from a remarkably well-preserved skull and partial skeleton found in northwestern…...