2+ hour, 55+ min ago  (278+ words) Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in Spain, reinforcing knowledge that land routes once connected parts of South America, Africa and Europe about 120 million years ago. Named Dasosaurus tocantinensis,…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (424+ words) Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying which dinosaur left…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (585+ words) About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal " meat from a woolly rhinoceros " shortly before dying on the harsh Ice Age landscape of northeastern Siberia. In a first, researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome…...