4+ hour, 1+ min ago  (279+ words) A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen before on this kind of dinosaur. The discovery reveals more than just the dinosaur's beauty, however. Spinosaurus have mostly been…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (587+ words) Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, a newly described species that was one of the largest, most feared land animals of its time " at least, if you were a fern. Hailing from 307 million years ago, this strange tetrapod was among the earliest known…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (585+ words) Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of the first people to inhabit the Americas. The tools resemble those made by people of the Clovis culture, which is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (520+ words) Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, reconstructed from fossil data, shows that the young not-yet-giants almost single-handedly supported predator populations of the area. With their elephantine…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (710+ words) Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones. A new study from paleontologists at the University of Chicago in the US…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (788+ words) Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath of this event, has mostly been…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago  (438+ words) The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic " and it turns out it might have been an even more impressive sight during the Pleistocene. A new study by researchers from the Universities of Manchester and…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (649+ words) An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') " one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (753+ words) The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly rhinoceros disappeared from this world. A previous analysis of the stomach contents of a cub found in the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (738+ words) The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones " two epiphyseal plates from a mammalian spine " on an expedition in…...