15+ hour, 1+ min ago   (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (724+ words) A new study put numbers to a longstanding imbalance in science: Many of the mammals discovered in poorer countries are still being physically archived in richer ones. The official record of biodiversity helps determine who has access to knowledge, research…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (560+ words) Scientists rediscover a ‘ghost’ green mamba hidden in a Polish museum for decades after its 1885 discover The Times of India...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (556+ words) It’s a warm August afternoon, and a gentle breeze rustles the firs and sugar maples at the Rochester Museum & Science Center's Cumming Nature Center in Naples. Judy Dobles, a retiree from Kodak's finance department and now volunteer at the Nature…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (580+ words) The newest member of the Vandal family is an ancient recluse who may inspire fear among people and prey. Research students from the University of Idaho identified a new species of spider that exclusively resides in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (285+ words) A large-scale shark fossil assemblage estimated to have formed approximately 100 million years ago has been discovered in the heart of Egypt's Western Desert. With tooth fossils from at least 7 shark species identified, the find is being hailed as definitive evidence…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (203+ words) It was called Purussaurus, and it was a beast. In the wetlands of prehistoric Colombia, there was once a fearsome 4,000-pound, 23-foot-long relative of the crocodile with a bite that could probably chomp through a car. And it needed it,…...