3+ hour, 34+ min ago  (190+ words) For years, a mysterious predator haunted the fossil beds of Changma Basin in northwest China....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (236+ words) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (566+ words) An ancient giant " as massive as nine elephants " has emerged from Thailand. The dinosaur, named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, lived more than 100 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous. It was a sauropod, sporting a lengthy tail, a long neck, and a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (555+ words) On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball. "He's tiny! It's blue!" one excited scientist was recorded as…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (842+ words) A prehistoric predator to rival the most fearsome giant of them all has just been discovered lurking half-forgotten in a museum collection. No name is associated with Cretaceous terror as much as Tyrannosaurus rex; now, paleontologists have found a mosasaur…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (715+ words) You probably wouldn't say it to its face, but the famously fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the butt of tiny arm jokes. But new research could explain their hilarious hands, though it offers no guarantee it will stifle the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (572+ words) Paleontologists have pieced together a startling story from fossil footprints in South Korea: that of a large, flying reptile galloping across the ground, apparently hunting a small animal. The brief encounter has been imprinted in a slab of rock for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (839+ words) Long before Megalodon ruled the seas, something just as unsettling may have lurked in the depths " giant octopuses the size of whales. A new analysis of more than two dozen Late Cretaceous-era fossils reveals octopuses that may have reaching lengths…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (539+ words) Harvestmen are some of the weirdest-looking arachnids to roam this Earth, and they've been doing so for millions of years. A particularly wacky new species has now been found in two separate 35-million-year-old amber specimens from Ukraine and the Baltic…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (676+ words) For more than 180 years, scientists have hypothesized that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs, but haven't found any fossils to prove it. Now, paleontologists finally have some tantalizing evidence to back up those long-held suspicions. Around 250 million years ago, a…...