1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (516+ words) Our understanding of mammalian reproduction is being reborn. Analysis of a 236-million-year old fossil could completely rewrite our understanding of how mammals gave birth, per a study in the journal Frontiers in Mammal Science. The groundbreaking remains belong to Chiniquodon…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (372+ words) A forgotten fossil sitting in a museum drawer for nearly 100 years has turned out to be a game-changing Ice Age discovery. The fossil was originally excavated from Rancho La Brea in 1929 but went largely unstudied until lead author Jose Alberto…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (540+ words) The T-rex might have grown into the biggest, most terrifying creature to ever roam the planet, but it started life no bigger than a house cat. British researchers claim they’ve identified the first-known fossils of baby tyrannosaurs, offering a rare…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (386+ words) NEW YORK — Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or natural human mummies that get accidentally preserved…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (622+ words) Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. Researchers…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (522+ words) It’s a colossal find. Australian scientists detected signs of a super-rare giant squid during a watershed study, marking the first time the species had been recorded in the area in a quarter century. They detailed their one-of-a-kind find in a…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (619+ words) A stack of rare books worth millions of dollars was finally returned to the heirs of New York City royalty Monday — decades after they were snatched by a mysterious bookworm, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said. The 17 historic works — valued…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (640+ words) 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…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (299+ words) These Bay Area men have mammoth problems. Two friends from Petaluma have been arrested after smashing a woolly mammoth tusk while roughhousing at the Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum in Missouri. The tusk was around 10,000 years old and said to…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (401+ words) A Chapman University paleontologist who served as an advisor on the first five “Jurassic Park” movies has been let go by the college after emails showed his association with Jeffrey Epstein. In the most recent DOJ dump of files, a…...