News
"Its fearsome hooked jaw crushes with devastating power to bite through bone, something a 15 year-old American boy found to his cost. ."
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (316+ words) Roberto Torres Gonzalez / Getty Images The alligator snapping turtle looks as though it could have been created for a Sci-Fi/Dinosaur crossover film or conjured from the imagination of a child. The troughs and pointed peaks of the shell look…...
It was sealed off for 5 million years, breathes and has a Chandelier Ballroom filled with 6 metre long crystals
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (484+ words) Lechuguilla Cave, in New Mexico, is full of rare and spectacular geological formations Deep under New Mexico, there is a cave that breathes. As the atmospheric pressure outside of Lechuguilla Cave changes, air is forced in and out of the…...
Colossal dinosaur discovered in Thailand. The 27-tonne giant was as long as a blue whale
1+ week, 2+ day ago (396+ words) A team of palaeontologists led by University College London have just announced the discovery of a brand-new species of dinosaur " the largest ever discovered in Southeast Asia 10 years ago, a group of dinosaur hunters discovered a pile of giant bones…...
Crocs swallow rocks for two reasons. The second will amaze you
2+ week, 2+ day ago (194+ words) Crocodiles and alligators have been found with rocks in their bellies. They swallow these stones on purpose Elton John wasn't thinking of reptilian digestive strategies when he wrote Crocodile Rock but as it turns out, crocodilians do indeed have an…...
When a mountain collapsed in Mexico, light fell upon an underground lake. What happened next was remarkable
2+ week, 4+ day ago (405+ words) How a unique cave ecosystem helped researchers understand the genetic basis of blindness in cavefish. R Kellermeyer et al. Eyelessness has evolved many times in the animal kingdom. Creatures that dwell in the dark no longer need visual perception. Over…...
A real-life kraken monster? At 19m it was longer than a railway carriage, devilishly smart and able to crush prey with a devastatingly lethal bite. .. will
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (1404+ words) This giant cephalopod dwarfed mosasaurs and other massive marine reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs" The largest predators in Earth's oceans are typically vertebrates, so when palaeontologists recently announced they'd found fossils from a 19m-long octopus that…...
"Extremely rare" platypus teeth found in Australian outback. Here's why the discovery has got scientists so excited
3+ week, 2+ day ago (618+ words) A new study describing the discovery of rare platypus fossils has shed some light on the evolutionary history of one of Earth's most enigmatic mammals" The discovery of some new fossils belonging to the oldest known species of platypus, Obdurodon…...
A remarkable creature lurks in this flooded sinkhole in Mexico. Scientists went in to find it
4+ week, 1+ day ago (403+ words) Hidden within the porous limestone of the Yucatan Peninsula is a vast subterranean world where an ecosystem, millions of years in the making, has been found to be dependent upon a genus of cave shrimps. Separating the Gulf of Mexico…...
Millions of years old and still here. .. What exactly is a living fossil?
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (189+ words) Ben Garrod takes a look at what is meant by a living fossil The phrase "living fossil" is both widely used and widely argued over. It refers to an "archaic" species that has survived for a long time, whose anatomy…...
Massive 15kg echidnas once roamed south-east Australia. Evidence of the bizarre animals was found 120 years ago in a cave
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (541+ words) The re-examination of an Ice Age fossil that has spent the last 120 years in the bowels of a museum has filled a major knowledge gap in Australia's prehistoric fauna" A study, published earlier this week in the journal'Alcheringa: An Australasian…...