3+ hour, 48+ min ago  (28+ words) New Scientist Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 165 million years and even now, we're still uncovering new secrets about these extraordinary animals....

22+ hour, 49+ min ago  (701+ words) During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest they may have been highly intelligent hunters A reconstruction of the giant octopus While dinosaurs ruled the land, Cretaceous oceans were home to a…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (362+ words) A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs" long necks began earlier than previously thought High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of palaeontologists has found a small dinosaur fossil with the first hints of…...

2+ week, 49+ min ago  (491+ words) A handful of plankton fossils buried in a small chunk of rock show that the oceans were teeming with life before the Late Ordovician mass extinction, the second most severe on record One of the radiolarian fossils found inside the…...

4+ week, 23+ hour ago  (538+ words) Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, which lived about 17 million years ago Artist's reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis, an ape that lived around 17 million years ago A…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (841+ words) Researchers have re-analysed a set of elephant bones and a wooden spear found in Germany in 1948, which provide compelling evidence of Neanderthals' big game hunting abilities Elephant bones from Lehringen, Germany, bearing marks of butchery by ancient humans VOLKER_MINKUS In the…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (841+ words) Researchers have re-analysed a set of elephant bones and a wooden spear found in Germany in 1948, which provide compelling evidence of Neanderthals' big game hunting abilities Elephant bones from Lehringen, Germany, bearing marks of butchery by ancient humans VOLKER_MINKUS In the…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago  (779+ words) We've always thought that Tyrannosaurus rex was an unchallenged apex predator during the dying days of the dinosaurs. But a fresh look at controversial fossils has prompted palaeontology's biggest-ever U-turn When you come for the king, you best not miss…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (141+ words) New Scientist Forget what you've seen in Jurassic Park: dinosaurs in real life were far more compelling, well adapted and intelligent than the movie monsters they are so often portrayed as. In this interview with renowned palaeontologist Dave Hone from…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (355+ words) Simulations of Australopithecus hominins" anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing Illustration of a female Australopithecus sediba carrying an infant Childbirth was difficult and…...