News
Ancient Bees Made Nests in the Bones of Dead Rodents, Study Finds
1+ day, 2+ hour ago More than 5,000 years ago, bees in the Caribbean nested inside dead animals. They built their brood chambers in the hollow teeth and vertebrae of rodents buried in a cave. According to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science,…...
An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
1+ day, 21+ hour ago At the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, N.Y., visitors wander through extinct ecosystems that start at the dawn of complex life on Earth and then run to the steppes of ice age mastodons. But the museum now faces a battle…...
An Enormous Shark Ruled the Seas Before the Megalodon, Fossils Reveal
2+ day, 19+ hour ago Tens of millions of years before the megalodon, a massive shark was running the oceans. According to new research, a previously overlooked set of fossils found near Darwin, Australia, belonged to the earliest known mega-predatory shark in the modern shark…...
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps
3+ day, 20+ hour ago The finding in Stelvio National Park, near the Swiss border, that was unveiled Tuesday consists of thousands of fossilized footprints more than 200 million years old. The tracks, some of them stretching for hundreds of yards, are so well preserved that…...
When the Bones Were Good, These Bees Buried Their Babies
4+ day, 14+ hour ago In a cave thousands of years ago, giant owls scarfed down the spoils from their hunts. With eyes that were apparently bigger than their stomachs, the owls regurgitated bone-rich pellets onto the cave floor. According to Lazaro Vi'ola L'pez, a…...
Researchers say monstrous shark ruled ancient seas before megalodon
6+ day, 23+ hour ago In the age of dinosaurs " before whales, great whites or the bus-sized'megalodon" a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period. Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach near…...
Smithsonian to display a rare dinosaur skull that was a ‘dream’ discovery
1+ week, 2+ day ago Matthew Carrano gently ran his finger along the toothy upper jaw of the Smithsonian Institution's newest arrival, which was still sitting in its padded shipping crate. The dinosaur curator looked down in awe at the hulking 67-million-year-old fossil with jumbo…...
Prehistoric Bird Swallowed 800 Rocks and Choked to Death—But Why?
1+ week, 5+ day ago Poor Chromeornis funkyi. What an embarrassing way to go. Those who have not brushed up on their Latin names for bird species that have been extinct for hundreds of millions of years, Chromeornis funkyi is a newly identified bird. The…...
World’s Largest Dinosaur Tracks Site Found in Bolivia
1+ week, 6+ day ago A team of US and Bolivian researchers has revealed that the Carreras Pampa archaeological dig site in Bolivia's Torotoro National Park is the single largest dinosaur track site ever discovered. How many individual prints have to be at the site…...
Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs
2+ week, 1+ day ago Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored steep slabs of limestone " remnants of an ancient seabed. They found thousands of curious imprints in the rock: moon-shaped marks that…...