5+ hour, 24+ min ago  (633+ words) When a 125, 000-year-old elephant skeleton, pierced by a wooden spear, was discovered in an ancient lake bed in Germany in 1948, it was assumed that the Neanderthals who inhabited Europe at that time were not sophisticated enough to hunt such massive…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (763+ words) Everyone has come across a chelicerate. This diverse group of arthropods contains more than 120, 000 known species, including spiders, scorpions, mites and horseshoe crabs. Each of these critters is armed with a pair of chelicerae, a pincer-like appendage adapted for snatching…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (395+ words) The world's largest Tyrannosaurus rex statue needs a new home. Tyra, located in the Canadian Badlands, is a gigantic kitschy roadside attraction that, like the dinosaurs she is based on, is facing extinction. The 86-foot-tall T. rex that weighs in at…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (263+ words) According to a study published in the Fossil Record, paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species, the first of its kind ever found there. They did so using a rare partial skull and named the new species…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (413+ words) Examples of how the world is catering exclusively to the wealthy are everywhere you look. From trips to Disney to new cars, only the wealthy can afford anything anymore. Perhaps the most cartoonish example of the rich snatching up things…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1364+ words) Vanya Gregor Rohwer slid open a drawer to display the rich pink spread wing of a roseate spoonbill, one of thousands of mounted wings at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. He pulled up a long flight feather to expose,…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (306+ words) A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed'dinosaur fossils'at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit Hall after removing asphalt in mid-September, exposing'dinosaur-bearing sandstone, the…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (384+ words) According to a new study published in Peer J, the Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest land predator to ever live, may have needed 35 to 40 years to reach its full, gigantic size. That's significantly longer than scientists previously thought. A team of…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (402+ words) A frozen wolf pup that died more than 14, 000 years ago has become an unlikely archivist of extinction. Inside its stomach, scientists found preserved flesh from a woolly rhino, and that grisly detail has now helped answer a long-running question about…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (447+ words) More than 5, 000 years ago, bees in the Caribbean nested inside dead animals. They built their brood chambers in the hollow teeth and vertebrae of rodents buried in a cave. According to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science,…...