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Crocodiles Were Very Different Before the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs, New Research Says
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (295+ words) A fearsome killer croc seemingly moving at a snail’s pace, without a care in the world, isn’t lazy after all. Crocodiles are the prototypical cold-blooded creature. Both figuratively and literally. According to new research published in Paleobiology and detailed by…...
10 Million Years Ago, This 23-Foot Crocodile Ruled Over a Swamp Full of Giants
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (203+ words) It was called Purussaurus, and it was a beast. In the wetlands of prehistoric Colombia, there was once a fearsome 4,000-pound, 23-foot-long relative of the crocodile with a bite that could probably chomp through a car. And it needed it,…...
How Scientists Learned a 550-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature Was Right-Handed
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (447+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. The science of handedness is going through a bit of a renaissance right now. Just in the past few months, researchers have uncovered more about why roughly 90 percent of humans…...
Even Scientists Think This Dinosaur Looks Exactly Like Zuul From 'Ghostbusters"
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (363+ words) Even Scientists Think This Dinosaur Looks Exactly Like Zuul From ‘Ghostbusters’ VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. A 75-million-year-old dinosaur was a dead ringer for one of the monsters from the 1984 horror-comedy classic Ghostbusters. Fans of…...
Spider Fangs May Have Started With a 518-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature, According to Scientists
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (387+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. It feels like we’ve seen Spider-Man’s origin story more than enough for several lifetimes. But one thing Marvel has never bothered to explain is the origin of the fangs on…...
Ever Wondered What a Deadly Flying Squirrel With Velociraptor Claws Would Look Like? Science Has Your Answer.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (375+ words) vice.com Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. The velociraptor had a four-winged cousin that, according to the artist rendering released with news of its discovery, looks like a bizarre hybrid monster: the head of a wolf,…...
Before Humans, England Belonged to Horrifying Scorpions the Size of Dogs. Here's What They Looked Like.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (386+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. If you’ve ever found yourself playing Fallout: New Vegas and thanking your lucky stars that you don’t live in a world infested with gigantic scorpions, well, I hate to break…...
Scientists Just Discovered Half-a-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Animals Having Sex
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (218+ words) Earthlings started getting it on even earlier than we thought! Publishing their findings in Science Advances, the researchers from the American Museum of Natural History say the fossils were discovered in 567-million-year-old rock formations from the Ediacaran Period. Scientists believe…...
Scientists Found a 121-Million-Year-Old Bird That Was Basically Peacocking Before Peacocking Existed
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (411+ words) VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. The term “peacocking” caught on over the last couple of decades as one of those pickup-artist concepts that’s just as embarrassing to explain as it is to do. Some guy…...
Scientists Discovered the Brutal Reason T. Rex Had Those Tiny Shrimp Arms
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (125+ words) Researchers now think there’s an actual evolutionary reason explaining why the T. rex evolved those famously pathetic arms....