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Golf ball-sized octopus discovered near the Gal'pagos Islands
4+ hour, 27+ min ago (384+ words) Published May 24, 2026 9: 01 PM EDT A tiny, bright blue octopus Microeledone galapagensis is small enough to fit inside the palm of your hand, but good luck trying to meet one. According to marine biologists, you'll likely have to settle with admiring…...
Why were T. rex's arms so tiny?
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (243+ words) Published May 19, 2026 7: 05 PM EDT "It's a case of "use it or lose it," University College London paleontologist Charlie Scherer said in a statement. Scherer and his colleagues recently examined the data for 82 theropod species, including those in T. rex's tyrannosaurid family....
1, 000-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (220+ words) Published May 18, 2026 10: 00 AM EDT The remains of an ancient dingo is shining new light on deep relationships between Australia's First Nations and the wild dogs. Barkindji ancestors deliberately cared for and buried the dingo along the Baaka (Darling River) about…...
A new dinosaur dubbed the "Last Titan of Thailand" weighed more than 9 elephants
1+ week, 3+ day ago (257+ words) Published May 14, 2026 5: 00 AM EDT Paleontologists found Nagatitan's spine, rib, pelvis, and leg bones about 10 years ago. Its front leg bone alone was about as long as a human and the team believes that Nagatitan weighed 27 tonnes (or about 5, 950 pounds)and…...
There's a reason we don't have birds the size of elephants
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1865+ words) By Stephen Brusatte / The Conversation Published May 12, 2026 9: 54 AM EDT Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It's a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and palaeontologists are still hunting for pieces of the puzzle today. Among…...
Prehistoric child's finger bone, bear tooth pendant, and more discovered in Spanish cave
2+ week, 6+ day ago (434+ words) Published May 5, 2026 12: 00 AM EDT Life at high altitudes is unforgiving. The thin air and atmosphere make breathing and other bodily functions difficult'especially for humans. However, a cave over 7, 000 feet above sea level in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain…...
Teen discovers Australia's oldest dinosaur fossil'almost 70 years ago
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (369+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 2: 37 PM EST In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry with school friends. He kept the fossil for years, eventually becoming a paleontologist himself. Over six decades later,…...
65-foot-long octopuses ruled ancient oceans
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (369+ words) Published Apr 23, 2026 5: 00 PM EDT Around 100 million years ago, real kraken-like creatures stalked Earth's prehistoric oceans. According to a study published today in the journal Science, some of the planet's oldest known octopuses measured nearly 65-feet-long and ruled their underwater domains....
450-million year old jellyfish ancestor looks like a flailing carwash tubeman
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (317+ words) Paleocanna tentaculum" was more closely related to today"s marine invertebrates than its prehistoric relatives. The post 450-million year old jellyfish ancestor looks like a flailing carwash tubeman appeared first on Popular Science. Published Apr 20, 2026 11: 44 AM EDT "He was able…...
New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (299+ words) Published Apr 19, 2026 10: 07 AM EDT In the latest episode of old museum collections revealing new discoveries, two researchers in Australia have solved a paleontological mystery with an Ice Age fossil first discovered over" 100 years ago. The fossil was found in" the…...