23+ hour, 40+ min ago  (532+ words) The earliest ankylosaur flaunted metre-long spikes and a tail weapon. In the rugged badlands of Morocco's Middle Atlas Mountains, a dinosaur bristling with spikes once lumbered across the Jurassic floodplains. It was not the squat, club-tailed Ankylosaurus of textbooks, but…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (966+ words) This ancient insect is the missing link between two living gnat species. The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods. Surprisingly, while studying this collection, a team of researchers found…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (512+ words) A tiny amphibian highlights how much biodiversity still hides in Brazil's mountains. In the mountains of southern Brazil, a frog just over a centimeter long lives in the leaf litter of the forest floor. It is bright orange, active during…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (749+ words) Home " Science " Anthropology New research suggests the famous Little Foot fossil may belong to a previously unknown hominin species. When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed they were meeting…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (554+ words) CT scans uncovered a fish hook that likely killed a sacred crocodile thousands of years ago. This ancient crocodile never finished its last meal. More than 2,000 years after it died, researchers can still make out a small fish inside its…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago  (597+ words) New Amazonian species has been crowned world's biggest snake. The emerald wonder of the Amazon rainforest just yielded a monstrous find: an 8-meter-long, 200-kilogram (26-foot-long, 440-pound) northern green anaconda, previously unknown to science. This behemoth is the largest snake ever…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (792+ words) Genetic evidence confirms early human migration to Sahul via two ancient sea routes When the first modern humans set their eyes on what is now Australia and New Guinea, they weren't looking at the islands we know today. They were…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (369+ words) While other species downsized and died out across millennia the anaconda remains an Amazon giant. The Green Anaconda is the heaviest snake on Earth today. For decades, many paleontologists suspected that the snake started out smaller and grew over the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (498+ words) Scientists reveal how a deep-sea "living fossil" bridges octopus and squid evolution. The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed arms, its massive eyes glowing…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (558+ words) Cuddly koalas are closely related to one of the deadliest mammals ever. Australian folklore warns of the "drop bear," a legendary and savage version of the koala said to leap from trees onto unsuspecting tourists. Now, scientists have found that…...