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Giant Salamander Is "Living Fossil" Unchanged Since Age of Dinosaurs'and It Was Just Photographed
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (511+ words) A park ranger patrolling remote streams in California recently stumbled onto something most people will never see in their lifetime: a California giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians on the planet and a creature scientists call a "living fossil....
Researchers make grisly discovery in ancient tyrannosaur bones
1+ week, 3+ day ago (395+ words) Groundbreaking new research has revealed that the T. rex was the ultimate cannibal, feeding on the carcasses of its dead relatives. While tyrannosaurs are commonly portrayed as fearsome apex predators, a new study has uncovered a far more opportunistic side to…...
Bite mechanics of ancient marine predators yields surprising results
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (868+ words) The Western Interior Seaway, which existed roughly 80 million years ago, split North America into North and South. It was a warm, shallow sea teeming with life from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Fish, squid, and marine reptiles'the…...
Scientists discover fossils that change what we know about evolution
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (529+ words) A groundbreaking discovery of fossils has provided scientists with an unprecedented insight into a pivotal moment in Earth's history: the transition from rudimentary plant and animal life to the intricate creatures that would eventually dominate the planet. This crucial evolutionary…...
Meet the Newly Discovered Strange Dinosaur That Once Ruled Sahara Rivers
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (209+ words) Spinosaurus mirabilis was a newly discovered spinosaur from the ancient river systems of what is now the Sahara in Niger. Its huge blade-shaped head crest may have been covered in keratin and possibly used for display or communication. Fossil evidence…...
Scientists Found Evidence of Ice Age Humans Where It Shouldn't Have Been
1+ week, 6+ day ago (354+ words) Research reveals that Serbian cave systems show evidence of human occupation during the second half of the last ice age. Humans may have been occupying these caves in the Balkans at a time when other parts of the region were…...
Ancient DNA reveals humans and dogs have lived alongside each other since the Ice Age
2+ week, 2+ day ago (428+ words) The close relationship between humans and dogs has been ongoing for more than 14, 000 years, a new study has discovered. Researchers have uncovered evidence that dogs were living alongside humans during the Ice Age, more than 5, 000 years before they were thought…...
66 Dinosaur Footprints Were Discovered at a School
2+ week, 2+ day ago (466+ words) A single boulder at a regional school in central Queensland was hiding 66 fossilized footprints in plain sight. Researchers that 47 individual dinosaurs made marks on the boulder, which originally came from a nearby mine and was given to a local high…...
Fossil analysis changes what paleontologists know about how long T. rex took to grow full size
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (622+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists have long counted annual growth rings in fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex leg bones to calculate both their age at…...
It took the fearsome T rex 40 years to reach its full size, study finds
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (471+ words) T rexes grew much more slowly than previously thought, taking several decades to reach their full size of around eight tonnes, a comprehensive new fossil study revealed. Until now, researchers counted annual growth rings " similar to tree rings " inside fossil…...