1+ week, 1+ day ago  (468+ words) A palaeontologist who worked as an adviser on several Jurassic Park films has left his role at Chapman University, weeks after emails linking him to Jeffrey Epstein were released. The 2012 emails show Jack Horner visited the convicted sex offender's New…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (543+ words) A study of anaconda fossils shows that these snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago and then stopped growing. As some of the planet's largest snakes, anacondas commonly measure 4 to 5 metres, but some can reach 7 metres. In this new…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (263+ words) For as long as humans have known them, anacondas have been giants. The colossal snakes average four to five meters long, and some individuals exceed six meters. They rank among the largest predators in South America's wetlands, and new research…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (44+ words) A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at a Wyoming museum is heading to an online auction as dinosaur prices keep soaring. A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at a Wyoming museum is heading to an online auction as…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (301+ words) Social wasps build nests from chewed wood fibers mixed with saliva, creating a durable, paper-like structure made up of tightly packed hexagonal cells. Each cell houses a developing wasp " starting as an egg, then a larva, and finally an adult…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (314+ words) While shallow seas turned into graveyards, deep-water environments became Noah's arks for marine life. The Huayuan biota captures something remarkable: soft tissues, guts, even neural structures frozen in time through Burgess Shale-type preservation. These aren't just fossilized shells and bones'you…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (125+ words) A library has said it will happily "waive the fine" on a library book that was returned more than 60 years late. Darlington Library said the copy of Dogs and Their Management by Frederick Cousens was due back on 8 September 1962. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (619+ words) Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast majority of dinosaurs. That means if aliens were to exist, and they…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (256+ words) Two books have been returned to a library almost 50 years past their due date after being spotted in a charity shop 60 miles away. The books, which were found in Beverley earlier this week, were due to be returned to Leeds…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (9+ words) 'Fabulous' fossil of crow-sized dinosaur discovered in Patagonia'Yahoo...