17+ hour, 47+ min ago   (464+ words) A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction event have been discovered. A new study in Science…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (533+ words) Scene painting some 66 million years ago showing the duck-billed dinosaur as it appeared in life based on mummies discovered in east-central Wyoming which document its scaly skin and hooves. It had a fleshy crest over neck and trunk, a fleshy…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (575+ words) Neanderthals systematically processed bones from at least 172 large mammals at a lakeside location in Germany 125,000 years ago, operating what researchers describe as a prehistoric "fat factory." The discovery at Neumark-Nord 2 fundamentally changes our understanding of Neanderthal food strategies, revealing sophisticated…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1108+ words) Japanese scientists have officially named their country's first pterosaur species from a single neck bone that sat in a museum for nearly three decades. The story of this pterosaur began in the 1990s when researchers found a partial neck vertebra in…...

7+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (786+ words) Australian Age of Dinosaurs Collection Manager Mackenzie Enchelmaier holds up sauropod gut content fossil. A 94-million-year-old sauropod dinosaur's fossilized gut contents have provided the first direct evidence of what these massive plant-eaters actually consumed, showing they swallowed their food with…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (740+ words) One of North America's most famous fossil discoveries has finally been properly identified as a new species of giant marine reptile that hunted the Two Traskasaura sandrae individuals hunt the ammonite Pachydiscus in the northern Pacific during the Late Cretaceous....

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (734+ words) Elephant-sized sloths once roamed from Alaska to Argentina, carving caves with massive claws and diving into oceans for seagrass meals. These ancient giants, some weighing 8,000 pounds, dominated the Americas for over 30 million years before vanishing around 15,000 years ago'just as humans…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (546+ words) Scientists have reconstructed the walking pattern of a massive prehistoric predator by digitally analyzing the longest dinosaur trackway in East Asia. A An image from the reconstruction of the dinosaur's movements. Scientists have reconstructed the walking pattern of a massive…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (802+ words) UCL (University College London) is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with 9,000 staff and 25,000 students. Over 150 nationalities are represented among UCL students with overseas students making up nearly a third of the student body. Based in the heart of London, UCL was…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (563+ words) Ancient fossilized footprints have provided scientists with unprecedented insight into when and how pterosaurs " the magnificent flying reptiles that Pterosaur tracks meet their match: ancient footprints revealed. This side-by-side comparison shows a pterosaur's hand and foot alongside 155-million-year-old tracks from…...