3+ hour, 27+ min ago  (651+ words) Flecks of true amber detected in Xinjiang date to the Middle Devonian, pushing back the origin of resin secretion by at least 65 million years Microscopic particles of amber discovered in coal seams in northwest China are the earliest in the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (834+ words) Analysis of beaks shows octopuses could reach 19 meters in length may well have dined on the sharks we thought were on top The megalodon closed its fearsome jaws around the giant squid that had wrapped its arms around a puny…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (589+ words) The discovery supports the thesis that the great Tyrannosaur emerged in North America How big is an "unusually large tyrannosaur"? Its shinbone is 96 centimeters long, more than three times longer the corresponding human equivalent. It's not the longest tyrannosaur shinbone…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (631+ words) The aviating abilities of Anchiornis huxleyi had been in doubt. Yosef Kiat et al have shown its molt was messy, inferring it stayed on the ground There was a dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi, and it became famous 160 million years after…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (688+ words) Predecessor of dinosaurs was an opportunistic feeder, and may not have been as dismayed by throwing up as we are Almost 300 million years ago, an animal threw up in Thuringia. Now analysis of the fossil ejecta from the Early Permian…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (922+ words) Sahelanthropus tchadensis was small and it looked like a chimp but new analysis of old bones, helped by feeling them, finds a feature no ape ever had For all the attention devoted to human evolution, we still don't know who…...