8+ hour, 15+ min 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…...

1+ week, 2+ 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…...

1+ 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…...

1+ mon, 3+ 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…...

2+ mon, 6+ 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…...

4+ mon, 15+ hour 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…...

6+ mon, 6+ hour 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…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (583+ words) Germany's Solnhofen islands gave us a treasure trove of pterosaur fossils, so rich that they've shaped how we picture these ancient flyers. But while the bones speak volumes, the story of how they were fossilized remains murky. In a forensic…...

7+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (609+ words) Mammalodontids are an extinct group of toothed baleen whales from the Chattian period, found in southeastern Australia and New Zealand. Although three species have been named, most of the fossil material, mainly teeth and ear bones from Victoria's Torquay Basin,…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (532+ words) From the depths of Germany's legendary Posidonia Shale, scientists have unveiled a new marine reptile species: Plesionectes longicollum, meaning "long-necked near-swimmer." This elegant plesiosauroid once glided through Jurassic seas nearly 183 million years ago, and its almost complete skeleton, soft tissues,…...