1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (22+ words) Paleontologists in Thailand have identified a new species of a massive sauropod that may be the largest ever discovered in Southeast Asia....

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (270+ words) Bicycles and video games hadn't been invented yet, after all. It's sometimes difficult to imagine what childhood was like for someone in another country who lived within a completely different cultural context from your own. It can be even more…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (260+ words) Paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species and named it after a beloved Korean cartoon character. According to a study published in the Fossil Record, paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species, the first…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (205+ words) Researchers hope that this technology can be used to build a massive compendium of all life itself. There are a lot of ants. Some estimates put it around 20 quadrillion of them on Earth. That's why we see them everywhere we…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (420+ words) A dinosaur named Trey is now headed to the auction block, where his bones will fetch upwards of $5. 5 million. Examples of how the world is catering exclusively to the wealthy are everywhere you look. From trips to Disney to new…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (182+ words) It's a butthole. It's functional. It's unglamorous. It's also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built. That's why the potential cloaca imprint is the star. Near the base of the tail, the fossil shows a narrow slit-like…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (222+ words) Was this basically a giant porcupine? For a while, we thought dinosaurs were pretty much just huge scaly lizards. And then we found evidence of fossilized feathers, which altered our image of many species from oversized iguanas to nightmarish bird…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (341+ words) Life, uh, finds a way. The asteroid that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs has sort of been viewed as nature's ultimate reset button. Sixty-six million years ago, Chicxulub hit, the lights went out, and around three-quarters of life on Earth…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (262+ words) These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos. Kangaroos and jumping go hand in hand. But that wasn't always the case. During the Pleistocene era, which spanned roughly 2. 6 million years ago to only about…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (368+ words) Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. A new study published in Nature reinforces the idea that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. This is based on a set of fossils unearthed in a Moroccan cave that date to…...