12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (889+ words) We know dinosaurs were around 99 million years ago, but now new research has identified a kind of parasitic wasp that was flying around back then (and which has a strange way of catching its prey). The species now called Sirenobethylus…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (380+ words) A remarkable fossil unearthed in Africa is rewriting the story of dinosaur origins. The 225-million-year-old leg bone, belonging to a little-known group of reptiles called silesaurs, challenges long-held beliefs about the size of the very first dinosaurs " or their closest…...