4+ hour, 49+ min ago  (350+ words) A museum in Georgia is now home to the world's first complete and scientifically accurate mounted skeleton of Deinosuchus schwimmeri, one of the largest and most dangerous reptiles to ever live. Deinosuchus schwimmeri, which walked the eastern United States 83 million…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (544+ words) Scientists wanted to know why the iconic triceratops had such an unusually large nose compared to most species'both past and present. Their new study shows the triple-horned dinosaur had a huge nose to help control its body temperature. The team…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (790+ words) The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant eating reptiles now called Tanyka consisted of "living fossils" even when they stalked the Earth around…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (480+ words) As it often tends to, the fossilized remains of a tiny bird-like dinosaur are rewriting history. A team of North and South American scientists described Alnashetri cerropoliciensis as the "missing link'not from dinosaurs to birds, as the phrase has often…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (617+ words) Insects play a critical role in ecosystems but, because they are so rarely preserved as fossils, it's hard to study their roles from habitats millions of years old. But fossilized tree resin can occasionally preserve an insect within its amber,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (595+ words) Remains of an early human ancestor from a critically important period in our evolutionary history have been found in Morocco. Dated back 700, 000 years using precise geo-magnetic methods, the assemblage of jawbones and teeth may come from the epoch during which…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (747+ words) Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20, 000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave where they used the bones of prey animals rather than soft soil. The groundbreaking discovery was made in a…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (380+ words) In Bolivia, the largest number of dinosaur footprints ever recorded in a single spot is yielding fascinating insight on how these prehistoric animals moved in a way that bones just can't. 16, 600 footprints, forming dozens of "trackways," have been so far…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (513+ words) An extinct species of rhino that lived inside the Arctic Circle 23 million years ago has been discovered. The nearly complete fossilized skeleton was recovered from the fossil-rich lake deposits in Haughton Crater on Devon Island, in the Canadian High Arctic....

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (461+ words) The Bahamas were once crawling with pirates, but have always been crawling with lizards. Do the two have anything in common? Well, much like the old trope of pirates missing legs and hands, many of the lizards of the Bahamas…...