2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (331+ words) A rare fossil find shows a tooth embedded an ichthyosaur’s vertebra, where it was likely left when a giant pliosaurid chomped down on this dolphin-resembling reptile By Sara Novak edited by Andrea Thompson A computer rendering of a shonisaurus ichthyosaur....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (289+ words) This massive dinosaur skeleton sold for more than $50.1 million on Tuesday By Claire Cameron edited by Clara Moskowitz The head of "Gus", part of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, one of the largest T. rex ever found, is pictured during a press…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (534+ words) The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron A submersible’s robotic arm grasps a fossilized whale bone on the deep seafloor. Chinese scientists…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (209+ words) Like modern crocodiles, this bizarre ancient reptile was likely a carnivore, but otherwise it bears little resemblance to them By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron More than 200 million years ago a bizarre, beaked, toothless reptile with tiny arms stomped…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (166+ words) This teensy creature was discovered along a deep-sea mountain By Jeanna Bryner edited by Claire Cameron The new species, a golf ball-size octopus, was discovered on the deep seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. Courtesy of the Charles Darwin Foundation It’s…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (368+ words) New trove of fossils reveals that ancestral animals likely emerged in the deep sea By Jack Tamisiea edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier A paleoartist’s interpretation of what a newfound fossil site’s deep-sea ecosystem looked like during the Ediacaran period around…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (472+ words) Some extinct human ancestors and modern-day apes appear to share wrist traits that raise the question of whether our last common ancestor walked on its knuckles A western lowland gorilla. Human evolutionary science has long been caught up in a…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (412+ words) Peering into Earth’s climate past is getting ever more bizarre By Hannah Richter edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Erin McClymont’s laboratory has six kitchen freezers, each alarmed. This is for self-preservation: when the power goes out or an appliance breaks…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (455+ words) ‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Scientific American ‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago   (281+ words) Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to a new study Sauropods—humongous reptiles with a long neck and tail and thick, elephantlike legs—played a starring role in the…...