5+ hour, 32+ min ago  (544+ words) "We were quite shocked to discover this shrimp in the heart of the forest." "Though some might describe the Cyclops as a "Green Hell, I think the landscape is magical, at once enchanting and dangerous, like something out of a…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (170+ words) A single octopus collected nearly a mile deep near the Gal'pagos Islands has been identified as a new species, Microeledone galapagensis, overturning a recent definition that placed its entire family exclusively in the cold Southern Ocean. Small enough to fit…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (405+ words) A Kansas boy found something historic during an educational field trip. Corbin Bullard, 12, is already a geology fan, especially dinosaurs. He is also a part of the 4-H Geology Club in Sedgwick County. "4-H is definitely meant to help kids…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (816+ words) T. rex's famously tiny arms may have been the result of one terrifying evolutionary upgrade: an enormous skull built for crushing prey. Credit: Shutterstock A new study suggests T. rex and other giant predators evolved tiny arms because their massive skulls took…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (441+ words) During the Late Bronze Age, these palatial centers ranked among the most dominant powers of the Aegean and the wider Mediterranean, overseeing sprawling trade networks that exchanged fine pottery and bronze for Egyptian gold and goods from the Levant. The…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (174+ words) It was more than it was Kraken-ed up to be. An octopus the size of the Hollywood Sign might seem like a monster from Greek mythology. This massive mollusk "had among the largest body sizes of all organisms in the…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (156+ words) A new analysis of turtle shell fragments unearthed at the Paleolithic site of Neumark-Nord in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt suggests Neanderthals regularly hunted the diminutive European pond turtle. A team led by archaeologist Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from the Institute for…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (930+ words) Deep within the frozen ground of Devon Island in Canada's High Arctic, researchers found the nearly complete skeleton of a rhinoceros, Epiaceratherium itjilik, that lived there around 23 million years ago. The discovery, made by a team from the Canadian Museum…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (266+ words) At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shaped head crest and jaws bearing interlocking teeth for…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (85+ words) Interesting how man made climate change started 20, 000 years ago. Camp fires can cause earth warming? And that English channel property prices went down. And all we got was the ability to farm in Europe. Or pick berries. Really interesting when…...