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China dinosaur footprints reveal one of slowest carnivorous dinosaurs recorded
41+ min ago (494+ words) Discover the engineering revolution transforming modern defense with Strength, Stealth, Speed: The Very Fast Future of Advanced Defense We usually picture carnivorous dinosaurs sprinting. This one appears to have wandered through its environment at little more than tortoise pace. Researchers…...
Why did T. rex have tiny arms? A new study may finally have the answer
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (363+ words) By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists may have finally solved the riddle of Tyrannosaurus rex's small arms, which have always stood out as the...
A New T. rex Has Been Discovered. But This One Ruled The Sea
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (424+ words) Scientists identify a giant Texas mosasaur with serrated teeth and a brutal bite....
A Biologist Explains What The First Eyes On Earth Could See. Hint: They Were Made Of Crystal
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (795+ words) Millions of years before color vision and binocular sight, one of the animal kingdom's most transformative inventions emerged: the eye. Although eyesight seems incredibly commonplace today, few people realize that vision wasn't always part of life's toolbox. The earliest fossil…...
Scientists Discovered the Brutal Reason T. Rex Had Those Tiny Shrimp Arms
3+ hour, 27+ min ago (125+ words) Researchers now think there's an actual evolutionary reason explaining why the T. rex evolved those famously pathetic arms....
It's blue!" Deep-sea scientists discover exciting new species in the Gal'pagos
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (43+ words) Microeledone galapagensis, a tiny blue octopus, is new to science...
Was There a Real Prehistoric Squirrel Anything Like Scrat? Scientists Went Looking and the Answer Is Genuinely Fascinating
4+ hour, 17+ min ago (380+ words) Home " Animals " Was There a Real Prehistoric Squirrel Anything Like Scrat? Scientists Went Looking and the Answer Is Genuinely Fascinating Few animated characters have lodged themselves into popular memory quite the way Scrat has. That gap-toothed, long-snouted, perpetually doomed little…...
Scientists Discover a 700-Kilogram Fossil Rock in Brazil That Confirms an Ancient Ocean Once Covered Its Interior
4+ hour, 2+ min ago (501+ words) A fossil preserved inside a rock weighing hundreds of kilograms held a secret untouched for hundreds of millions of years, revealing traces of a lost environment that no longer exists. A fossil discovered in northeastern Brazil is giving scientists and…...
This prehistoric fish may explain how animals first walked on Earth
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (408+ words) Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move out of the water. Using advanced neutron imaging,…...
100-million-year-old bug had crab-like claws unlike any known insect
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (456+ words) Amber from Myanmar's Kachin region continues to reveal extraordinary glimpses into life during the age of dinosaurs. Preserved inside the 100 million-year-old resin are fossils from an ancient forest ecosystem that once supported a remarkable variety of creatures, including species never…...