2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (401+ words) Paleontologists have discovered a remarkable new dinosaur in China'one that carried unusual skin spikes unlike anything ever seen before in dinosaurs. The find adds a surprising new chapter to the story of iguanodontians, a well-known group of plant-eating dinosaurs that…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (505+ words) Paleontologists have identified a new species of dinosaur so small it could almost fit under your arm'and yet it is helping scientists solve a major evolutionary mystery. The dinosaur, named Foskeia pelendonum, lived during the Early Cretaceous period and measured…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (496+ words) A new study suggests that the babies of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth were once a crucial food source for meat-eating predators. According to research led by a scientist from University College London, very young sauropods'long-necked plant-eaters…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (453+ words) More than 3.5 billion years ago, Earth looked nothing like it does today. The air contained no oxygen, the oceans were acidic and filled with dissolved iron, and volcanoes dominated a harsh, barren landscape. Yet somehow, in this extreme environment, life…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (475+ words) Sometimes big discoveries begin with a moment of surprise. For Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, that moment came during a walk through Morocco's Dad's Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (418+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex has long been pictured as a fast-growing monster that quickly reached its enormous adult size. But a new study suggests the famous "king of dinosaurs" was far more patient. According to the most detailed growth analysis ever done…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (685+ words) About 445 million years ago, life on Earth nearly collapsed. In a relatively short geological moment, Earth's climate flipped dramatically. Massive glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, sea levels dropped, and vast shallow oceans dried up. Then, just as conditions began…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (558+ words) Scientists may have just pushed back the timeline for when our ancestors first started walking upright. A new study suggests that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a species that lived about seven million years ago, was able to walk on two legs'making it…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (439+ words) For more than two decades, a small dinosaur from China has left scientists scratching their heads. Known as Liaoningosaurus paradoxus, this strange fossil looked like an armored dinosaur'but every specimen ever found was tiny, no longer than 40 centimeters. That's confusing,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (623+ words) Along the coast of South Africa, strange rocky formations quietly grow in places where life seems unlikely to survive. These structures, known as microbialites, look like ordinary rocks, but they are very much alive. Built layer by layer by communities…...