2+ hour, 12+ min 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+ week, 1+ day 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+ week, 2+ day 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 (seda DNA) analysis in 252 sediment samples from 41 cores along the…...

1+ mon, 4+ 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 it…...

2+ mon, 5+ day 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 bodies, odd…...

3+ mon, 2+ 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…...

3+ mon, 2+ 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…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (374+ words) Now, a new study from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities suggests that this traditional system may not tell the whole story. By testing how bones behave in unsteady flood conditions, researchers found that water dynamics can dramatically change how…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (675+ words) If you think kissing is just a romantic quirk humans came up with somewhere along the way, think again. A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford suggests kissing is far older and far more deeply rooted…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (578+ words) Pachycephalosaurians, those dome-headed dinosaurs, are famous for their thick skulls and fancy headgear, possibly used in social or mating battles. But their early evolutionary story is still fuzzy, because we haven't found clear fossils from their earliest ancestors. That makes…...