3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (780+ words) Long before cities and roads transformed its landscape, Europe supported animals comparable with Africa’s largest living creatures. Elephants weighing over 10 tonnes, armored rhinoceroses, towering bison, and deer carrying record-breaking antlers once occupied its forests, grasslands, rivers, and vast frozen steppes....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (381+ words) Experts reviewed fossil, genetic, and archaeological data to provide a more realistic perspective on evolution. The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was not a single breakthrough that propelled Homo sapiens into the “human…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (647+ words) A new study has established the first-ever evolutionary history of all living millipedes, one of the planet’s first land animals that pioneered its terrestrial ecosystems (as the first chemical weapon manufacturers, too). At a time when the Earth was bare,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (522+ words) This 70-million-year-old predator didn’t stalk herds on the plains. Rather, it behaved a lot like a modern heron, a long-necked bird. A team of paleontologists led by Dr. Matías Motta of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Argentina has…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (407+ words) Discover the engineering revolution transforming modern defense with Strength, Stealth, Speed: The Very Fast Future of Advanced Defense Meet Labrujasuchus expectatus, a bizarre, newly discovered reptile from the Triassic. “We see a lot of the successful strategies for modern animals…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (494+ words) Discover the engineering revolution transforming modern defense with Strength, Stealth, Speed: The Very Fast Future of Advanced Defense We usually picture carnivorous dinosaurs sprinting. This one appears to have wandered through its environment at little more than tortoise pace. Researchers…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (500+ words) This particular giant roamed Southeast Asia during the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 100 to 120 million years ago. Ten years ago, a few weathered bones sat at the edge of a quiet pond in northeast Thailand. Today, these remains belong to a…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (452+ words) Researchers used dental microwear analysis to prove that “Good Mother” dinosaurs actively nurtured their offspring 75 million years ago. A groundbreaking study from Ohio State University has provided the earliest direct evidence that adult Maiasaura peeblesorums fed their young better food,…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (386+ words) Hidden within blocks of rock for centuries, two ancient reptile cousins were recently rediscovered. Two hundred ten million years ago, two crocodile cousins tragically died side by side, according to Yale paleontologists who discovered this significant moment in time when…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (424+ words) Paleontologists have compiled anatomical and fossil age data to clarify how dinosaurs evolved through sporadic bursts of morphological change. A new study by Princeton and Yale Universities has revised the timeline of dinosaur origins, pushing it back by 10 million years....