10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (271+ words) In the misty evergreen forests of Mae Wong National Park, western Thailand, scientists have uncovered a creature that sounds like it leaped straight out of fantasy: a new species of mountain horned dragon, Acanthosaura syrax. Named after Syrax, the dragon…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (472+ words) One of the major challenges in deciphering Ice Age bones is resolving a conflict in the records between what they say, that they’re “extinct”, and what genetic analyses can test, which may indicate that these ancient animals are “still alive....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (591+ words) A small, wide-eyed primate that lives in the forests of northern Argentina has quietly been going against everything biologists thought they knew. This trend runs counter to one of the few principles that have guided biologists since the 19th century. This…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (501+ words) The majority of dinosaur fossils found in Thailand are large, long-necked sauropods. Yet, in the Khok Kruat Formation, the youngest dinosaur-charged Mesozoic rock layer in Thailand, fossil remains are few and usually incomplete. The fossils, first uncovered near a pond…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (769+ words) A newly identified prehistoric reptile is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how ancient animals grew up, quite literally. Meet Sonselasuchus cedrus, a “peculiar” relative of crocodiles that appears to have lived a life in two very different postures....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (545+ words) Researchers at the University of Warwick reconstructed the ancient ecology of the Southern River, which existed from the late Late Pleistocene to the late Holocene. They used sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) analysis in 252 sediment samples from 41 cores along the river…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (618+ words) A tiny dinosaur no bigger than a turkey has captured scientists’ attention, and hearts. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and the Korean Dinosaur Research Center have discovered an early‑branching neornithischian dinosaur in South Korea and named…...

5+ mon, 4+ hour ago   (564+ words) Among the strangest branches of the dinosaur family tree are the alvarezsauroids, small, bird‑like theropods that lived from the Jurassic into the Cretaceous. They don’t fit the image of sharp‑toothed predators. Instead, their story is one of shrinking…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (641+ words) The Morrison Formation is a notable rock layer from the Upper Jurassic period, recognized for its variety of land animals. Despite over a hundred years of research, we still don’t fully understand how these organisms interact with each other. Understanding…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (458+ words) For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and the physics simply would not work. Tendons would snap. Bones would fail. Energy costs would explode. That…...