5+ hour, 2+ min ago  (417+ words) Monarch butterflies may hold the key to one of biology's biggest unsolved puzzles: how animals tap into Earth's magnetic field to find their way. In Texas, neurobiologist Robin Grob is performing microsurgery on monarchs, sliding hair-thin electrodes into their brains,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (193+ words) A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (320+ words) The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (350+ words) Scientists in Bolivia have uncovered a record-breaking 18,000 dinosaur footprints and swim tracks, setting a new global benchmark for a single tracksite. The discovery was made at the Carreras Pampa site in Torotoro National Park, an area that was once an…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (367+ words) Scientists say they may have discovered evidence of a prehistoric turtle stampede on a remote Italian cliff. The story begins in 2019, when rock climbers, venturing into a dangerous, off-limits section of limestone cliffs above the Adriatic near Ancona, Italy, found…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (444+ words) A new study offers the most intriguing clue yet for determining the sex of certain dinosaurs: injuries that may have resulted from mating. For decades, paleontologists have struggled to tell male from female dinosaurs based on fossils alone, but the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (396+ words) Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to go by, making it hard to tell…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (322+ words) At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to go by, making it hard to tell if it belonged to a child or adult. Another skull and skeleton nicknamed Jane added to the debate, but didn't settle the controversy. Now…...

2+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (357+ words) A new study challenges the long-held idea that dinosaurs were already on the verge of extinction when a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. Instead, new research suggests they were thriving up until the moment disaster struck. The study,…...

2+ mon, 13+ hour ago  (518+ words) An ancient giant kangaroo bone from Australia's Mammoth Cave has long been cited as evidence that Indigenous Australians hunted megafauna to extinction. But a new study, powered by advanced technology, has turned that assumption on its head. Researchers used microCT…...