6+ hour, 8+ min ago  (438+ words) New research suggests the predatory dinosaur's famously small limbs weren't just an evolutionary fluke " but a direct trade-off for another (very important) body part Find yourself in the face of the world's most fearless dinosaur? Insult it where its insecurities…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (352+ words) Lurking in prehistoric seas, a colossal, intelligent hunter the length of four cars was crushing bones and seizing prey Scientists have discovered that giant octopuses up to 19m (62ft) long were the true apex predators of the dinosaur-age oceans. Publishing their findings…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (398+ words) The emergence of the world's most iconic predator remains a scientific mystery. This latest discovery offers a critical clue A 74-million-year-old leg bone from a fossil bed in New Mexico could be an early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, suggests a…...

3+ mon, 9+ hour ago  (424+ words) A near-complete fossil from Patagonia has finally cracked open the mysterious evolutionary story of one of prehistory's strangest dinosaur groups A 90-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Argentina is helping scientists rewrite the evolutionary history of a group of peculiar bird-like dinosaurs…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1437+ words) Turns out the T. rex was a feathery genius. Big and scary they may have been, but dinosaurs were by no means lumbering brutes. The more we learn about them, the more we see just how misguided our early assumptions were....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (395+ words) This school-bus-sized predator was so unusual that scientists didn't recognise it at first Palaeontologists have discovered a colossal new species of dinosaur in a remote part of the Sahara. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis " meaning "astonishing" Spinosaurus in Latin " the giant lived…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (507+ words) Archaeological analysis of items from a South American kingdom reveals their prosperity was built on bird poop The prosperity of the Chincha Kingdom " a powerful ancient society on the coast of Peru " was largely thanks to their savvy use of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (168+ words) Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good reason why If you scaled Mount Everest, you'd probably be surprised to find fossilised marine creatures " including trilobites, crinoids…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (154+ words) What is the longest-lived insect in the world? Think decades, not years, and you'll have your surprising answer! Image credit: Robin Boyden We often think of insects being short-lived, so you might be surprised to learn that some insects can…...