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History Books Really Glossed Over Some Crazy Prehistoric Events
3+ min ago (35+ words) History Books Really Glossed Over Some Crazy Prehistoric Stuff A Look At Moments In Earth's Past That Sound Made Up When it comes to our planet's history, we grew up thinking: dinosaurs, more "...
Discover the Fascinating World of Long-Neck Dinosaurs
5+ hour, 19+ min ago (1710+ words) Home " Wildlife " Reptiles " Dinosaurs " Discover the Fascinating World of Long-Neck Dinosaurs Welcome to long-neck dinosaurs. Everything you need to know about these magnificent dinosaurs. I personally love them for their calm nature and beautiful aesthetics. The world of dinosaurs is…...
How Crocodiles Survived Every Mass Extinction So Far
7+ hour, 29+ min ago (548+ words) Home " Animals " How Crocodiles Survived Every Mass Extinction So Far Crocodiles glide through murky waters today much as their distant relatives did long before humans walked the earth. Their story stretches across more than two hundred million years of planetary…...
Scientists Just Repeated a Nobel Prize-Winning Experiment in a Creature Older Than Jellyfish
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (234+ words) A century after one of developmental biology's most influential experiments, researchers have revisited the concept of the embryonic "organizer" in one of the oldest animal lineages alive today....
Ancient crocodile-like predators rewrite current knowledge of how animals adapted to the land
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (823+ words) New fossil evidence from crocodile-like early tetrapods known as embolomeres suggests they grew without undergoing amphibian-style metamorphosis. The finding challenges the long-held idea that the ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals all passed through a tadpole-like stage. (CREDIT: Berit Goding)…...
Dracula, The Largest Flying Dinosaur From 66 Million Years Ago
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (605+ words) Author: Author Arwen Kent, Bachelor of Science Home " News " Dracula, The Largest Flying Dinosaur From 66 Million Years Ago The discovery of an ancient flying reptile, nicknamed "Dracula," has reignited the fascination with prehistoric giants. This creature is now thought to…...
Rare Near-Perfect Wyoming Triceratops Skull Debuts In Netherlands Museum
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1203+ words) Veronika," an extremely rare near-perfect Triceratops skull from eastern Wyoming, has been unveiled in a museum in the Netherlands. Norwegian paleontologists were so excited by the find that they are sending more teams out to areas near Lusk to search…...
The Pok'mon TCG's Pitch Black expansion is trying really hard to make fossils work
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (476+ words) The upcoming Pok'mon TCG Pitch Black set will feature a selection of support cards for fossil Pok'mon, but are they awesome or archaic? Far from being dusty and forgotten relics, Fossil Pok'mon tend to be quite popular, just ask the…...
The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (250+ words) A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn' t originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some may have even survived seasonal Arctic conditions by slowing their metabolism or hibernating. Researchers found that…...
36 Amazing Animals From Alaska
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1755+ words) Home " News " 36 Amazing Animals From Alaska Alaska is the coldest state in the U. S. , with an average annual temperature of a mere 30. 7 F. Despite these harsh conditions, numerous animals have adapted in incredible ways " not only living but thriving in the beautiful…...