1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (763+ words) These limbless lizards are the real-life versions of a terrifying mythological serpent Is it a worm? A snake? Amphisbaenians, or worm lizards, have been confusing scientists for decades. Amphisbaenians are a group of mostly legless reptiles also known as “worm…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1552+ words) The largest invertebrates ever known, they lived in the age of dinosaurs This artwork shows the gigantic octopus Nanaimoteuthis haggarti. This invertebrate, which may have been as big as a school bus, stalked the seas at the time dinosaurs roamed…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1169+ words) Newfound fossils show that animals with left-right symmetry emerged earlier than once thought Animals may have had a rich variety of complex body types far earlier than scientists had recently thought. A crucial moment in the history of life on…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (558+ words) Fossils of the future may look very different from those of the past An artist’s depiction of a preserved android imagines how future fossils might reflect on humankind’s past. Archeologists of the distant future might study the preserved remains of…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1584+ words) This meal, from before the time of the dinos, reveals what the hunter preyed upon Researchers have identified bones in a chunk of fossilized vomit from an ancient predator. This illustration shows the likely predator — Dimetrodon teutonis — regurgitating the remains…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1169+ words) Surprisingly, the earliest relative of humans, apes and monkeys might not have lived in the tropics Today, primates, including monkeys and apes, are more common in the hot, humid tropics. That’s led people to think that primates evolved in such…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1724+ words) A fossil tooth rewrites where some of these giant mosasaurs lived This illustration depicts hunting freshwater mosasaurs — one in the act of feeding — at a site in North Dakota now known as the Hell Creek Formation. Mosasaurs — a fearsome group…...

6+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (975+ words) Many open questions remain about this iconic dinosaur’s appearance, speed, brainpower and more Tyrannosaurus rex truly was a fearsome predator in its time. This scene gets some things about T. rex right. But other aspects don’t quite match what paleontologists…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (911+ words) The colorful flair in these fossils comes down to crystal thicknesses and spacing Ammolite gems are some pretty fabulous fossils. They sport a rainbow flair that comes from tiny features in their crystal plates. January 20, 2026 at 6:30 am Ammolites are some…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1587+ words) This Nanotyrannus would have roamed alongside T. rex in the late Cretaceous Family feud? A juvenile T. rex fends off a pack of Nanotyrannus in the Late Cretaceous Period. It’s an artist’s depiction of dinosaur diversity at a site now known as…...