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A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (360+ words) Published Feb 18, 2026 4:00 PM EST A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, tells a gory story. The skull from a large plant-eating Edmontosaurus has a tooth lodged into it, indicating that it may…...
Prehistoric Japan was home to cave lions—not tigers
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (471+ words) Prehistoric Japan was home to cave lions'not tigers'Popular Science Present-day Japan may see its fair share of bears, but the islands" big cat populations are long gone. Between 129,000 and 11,700 years ago, temporary land bridges allowed the ancient predators to migrate…...
Ancient sharks once swam in this landlocked state
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (467+ words) Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer focused primarily on tech, AI, physics, and culture news. He was previously a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has been featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, McSweeney's Internet…...
Weird bird mouths go all the way back to the first avian dinosaur
2+ week, 1+ day ago (258+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 4:15 PM EST "For a long time, there have been very few things that we could say really characterize the transition from terrestrial dinosaurs to flying bird dinosaurs," explained Jingmai O'Connor, the associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's…...
Teen discovers Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil—almost 70 years ago
2+ week, 2+ day ago (369+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 2:37 PM EST In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry with school friends. He kept the fossil for years, eventually becoming a paleontologist himself. Over six decades later,…...
Oldest fossilized dinosaur vomit discovered in Germany
2+ week, 4+ day ago (195+ words) Published Jan 30, 2026 1:27 PM EST But MNG 17001 doesn't look anything like a coprolite. The bone fragments aren't housed in a sedimentary matrix, and it had very low phosphorus levels. Taken altogether, the team knew they were looking at a regurgitalite, or…...
Great white sharks grow a whole new kind of tooth for slicing bone as they age
2+ week, 5+ day ago (882+ words) By Emily Hunt, David Raubenheimer, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli / The Conversation Published Jan 30, 2026 2:00 PM EST This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the water, each…...
Skeletons reveal Stone Age mother and daughter had a rare genetic condition
2+ week, 5+ day ago (303+ words) Published Jan 30, 2026 11:08 AM EST AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological conditions including shortened limbs, spinal curvature,…...
550-pound Ice Age kangaroos could still hop
3+ week, 6+ day ago (359+ words) Published Jan 22, 2026 4:30 PM EST Kangaroos have likely been hopping across the planet for much longer than experts previously believed. Not only that, but the ancestors of today's marsupials landed their leaps while growing much larger than their descendents. It's easy…...
Dinosaur bones found underneath parking lot in Dinosaur, Colorado
4+ week, 1+ day ago (96+ words) Published Jan 20, 2026 1:11 PM EST Researchers are now continuing to clean and examine the parking lot discoveries that broke the century-long dry spell for Dinosaur, Colorado. That said, the town wasn't always so aptly named. Originally known as Baxter Springs, the…...