4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (330+ words) An 11-year-old boy made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery after finding an ancient elephant tooth right on the beach. The day of the big find, May 24, Charlie Orchard-Lisle was walking with his mother along East Lane beach in Bawdsey, a Suffolk coastal…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (536+ words) Everyone knows that the platypus is the world's strangest mammal, obeying conventions as well as Alice Cooper or Ozzy Osbourne ever did. But an "exciting" new fossil is revealing more about this ancient lineage's long history: namely some serious gnashers. Paleontologists…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (531+ words) The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows. Recovering a selection of truly revolutionary fossils from sediments in Japan and Vancouver Island, the researchers present a prehistoric…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (811+ words) Every breath you take is part of a very ancient story, a remarkably preserved reptile that died in an Oklahoma cave about 289 million years ago has revealed. The steady movement of your chest, the muscles between your ribs pulling outward,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (558+ words) Research from the University of Melbourne for the first time has confirmed the ancient impetus that formed the iconic Twelve Apostles, 25 miles of rock formations along Australia's southern coast. The evidence is in: tectonic plate movements over millions of years…...

1+ mon, 3+ week 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…...

3+ mon, 5+ day 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…...

3+ mon, 1+ 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…...

3+ mon, 1+ 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…...

3+ mon, 1+ 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,…...