5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (181+ words) Thanks to fossilized evidence from Richmond, Queensland, researchers found a marine reptile had eaten a flying reptile shortly before becoming a meal for a larger predator. This is some of the first fossilized evidence of its kind, according to a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (731+ words) Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now north-eastern Italy was lashed by monsoon rains and tropical cyclones. Those storms swept dinosaur carcasses, crocodiles, plants and river mud onto a tidal flat, where the tides…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (381+ words) A giant Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton sold for $50.1 million at an auction in New York on Tuesday, marking a new record price for a dinosaur fossil. The T. rex, nicknamed Gus, is a towering figure, standing at 12.5 feet fall and roughly 38 feet…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) Based on these results, the researchers support the idea that at least two human species coexisted at Dmanisi sometime around 1.8 million years ago. These groups are often classified as Homo georgicus, representing the more primitive form, and Homo caucasi, representing…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (170+ words) A single octopus collected nearly a mile deep near the Galápagos 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…...

2+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

3+ mon, 1+ 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…...