5+ hour, 9+ min ago  (828+ words) For decades, the tiny arms of Tyrannosaurus rex have inspired jokes more often than scientific respect. A predator that stretched over 40-feet-long and weighed several tonnes somehow ended up with forelimbs that looked oddly undersized. Popular culture treated them as…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (960+ words) The Arctic does not usually enter conversations about thriving prehistoric ecosystems. Most people picture a frozen emptiness where only the hardiest creatures survive. But 73 million years ago, northern Alaska looked very different. Forests stretched across the landscape. Dinosaurs roamed the…...

4+ day, 5+ min ago  (719+ words) Over the last four decades, paleontologists in Thailand have uncovered a remarkably rich and diverse prehistoric history Ten years ago, some bones turned up at the edge of a pond in northeast Thailand. It took a decade of research to…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (586+ words) Plant wax preserved in lake sediments reveals what the Earth's climate and rainfall were like 240, 000 years ago....

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (548+ words) Scientists discovered hidden phosphorus spikes in ancient limestone that may help explain two of Earth's worst marine mass extinctions....

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (866+ words) Seventy-five million years ago, in what is now Montana, duck-billed dinosaurs appear to have done something remarkably familiar. They may have fed their young better food than they ate themselves. A new study led by researchers at Ohio State University…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (908+ words) Workers building a road-rail terminal in northeastern Brazil never expected to uncover the fossils of a massive dinosaur beneath the dirt and concrete. The fossils were discovered nearly 26 feet underground. At first, the archaeologists wondered whether the bones could have…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (909+ words) Sharks have always carried an air of mystery. They move through water that humans rarely see clearly, and much of their lives remain hidden. Scientists have spent decades trying to understand them, especially how long they live. That number shapes…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (913+ words) When an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it ended the reign of the non-avian dinosaurs and wiped out roughly a third of all life on the planet." The sky went dark, temperatures collapsed,…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (796+ words) A Middle Jurassic dinosaur has been unearthed 166 million years after it died. It was the size of a large dog and ate a vegetarian diet. This skeleton was first noticed decades ago, but due to tricky access along the Isle…...