8+ hour, 28+ min ago  (687+ words) When a new species is introduced into an ecosystem, it may succeed in establishing itself, or it may fail to gain a foothold and die out. Physicists at MIT have now devised a formula that can predict which of those…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (408+ words) Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move out of the water. Using advanced neutron imaging,…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (456+ words) Amber from Myanmar's Kachin region continues to reveal extraordinary glimpses into life during the age of dinosaurs. Preserved inside the 100 million-year-old resin are fossils from an ancient forest ecosystem that once supported a remarkable variety of creatures, including species never…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (284+ words) A mysterious little blue octopus discovered nearly 6, 000 feet beneath the waters of the Gal'pagos Islands has officially been identified as a brand-new species. About the size of a golf ball, the tiny creature stunned researchers during a deep-sea expedition when…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (752+ words) Scientists have identified a massive new species of mosasaur, a marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs and dominated prehistoric oceans. The newly described predator, named Tylosaurus rex (or T. rex), measured up to 43 feet long and ranks among the largest…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (586+ words) Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully understood how it evolved. A massive new evolutionary study shows these skin bones appeared independently in multiple lizard groups…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (738+ words) The famously tiny arms of Tyrannosaurus rex may have been the result of a major shift in how giant meat eating dinosaurs hunted, according to a new study led by researchers from UCL (University College London) and the University of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (408+ words) Stegosaurs were plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on four legs and are best known for the rows of plates and spikes running from their necks to their tails. The newly studied fossil was uncovered during excavations led by Fundaci'n Din'polis at…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (752+ words) Researchers have identified a gigantic new species of long necked dinosaur in Thailand that is now considered the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Southeast Asia. The finding comes from a collaboration led by scientists from University College London (UCL), Mahasarakham…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (721+ words) For decades, scientists believed dinosaur fossils were little more than mineralized rock, with any original biological material long since destroyed by time. But an extraordinary study centered on a remarkably preserved Edmontosaurus fossil is challenging that assumption in a major…...