1+ hour, 53+ min ago   (332+ words) Saber-toothed cats may have suffered from serious health problems as their populations declined before extinction, new research suggests. Scientists found signs of rare spinal tumours and several bone abnormalities in fossils of Smilodon fatalis from California’s La Brea Tar Pits....

3+ hour, 9+ min ago   (332+ words) Saber-toothed cats may have suffered from serious health problems as their populations declined before extinction, new research suggests. Scientists found signs of rare spinal tumours and several bone abnormalities in fossils of Smilodon fatalis from California’s La Brea Tar Pits....

4+ day, 30+ min ago   (362+ words) A real-life “dragon” has entered the scientific record. Scientists have described a new species of mountain horned lizard from Thailand. They have named it Acanthosaura syrax, after "Syrax", the dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (449+ words) A new study suggests early mammals may help explain why dinosaurs never evolved into truly tiny adults, despite ruling Earth for millions of years. Researchers found that biology alone cannot explain the striking absence of mouse-sized dinosaurs, pointing instead to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (410+ words) A flowering mountain plant from southwestern China has been confirmed as carnivorous, settling a scientific question first raised by Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago. Researchers found that Saxifraga candelabrum attracts, traps, digests and absorbs nutrients from insects, making it…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (268+ words) Another mammoth in the Danube? The newly discovered bones are thought to belong to a prehistoric mammoth that roamed Europe during the Ice Age. Local residents spotted the remains after the river receded and alerted archaeologists, who have begun examining…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (472+ words) A new species of dinosaur has been unearthed in Zimbabwe which is changing scientists' view of the evolution of early dinosaurs in African land. Musango matusadonaensis is the newly discovered species that lived about 210 million years ago in the late…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (638+ words) Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Story of Birds:An Evolutionary History of the Dinosaurs That Live Among Us, Steve Brusatte, Picador, an imprint of PanMacmillan India. MY FRIENDS PAVEL NĚMEC AND Kristina Kverková are zombies. They harvest brains....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (468+ words) Scientists have uncovered 24-million-year-old fossilised Kevda leaves in Assam's Makum Coalfield, revealing that the fragrant plant existed in the Indian subcontinent long before human civilisation emerged. The study by researchers from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) shows that…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (459+ words) Scientists in Thailand have identified a previously unknown species of long-necked dinosaur that roamed the Earth around 150 million years ago, marking a significant addition to Southeast Asia's prehistoric record. The newly named Uragasaurus kalasinensis belongs to the Mamenchisauridae family, a…...