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Spider Fangs May Have Started With a 518-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature, According to Scientists
5+ hour, 46+ min 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+ week, 6+ day 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+ week, 6+ day 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
1+ mon, 4+ day 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
1+ mon, 4+ day 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
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (125+ words) Researchers now think there's an actual evolutionary reason explaining why the T. rex evolved those famously pathetic arms....
Something Ate the Dinosaurs After the Asteroid Killed Them, Scientists Say
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (329+ words) Chicxulub kicked off an "impact winter," resulting in a planet filled with dead organic matter. The dinosaurs had a good run and a brutal end that, according to new research, somehow got even more brutal after they died. Because while…...
A Chance Fossil Discovery Led Scientists to 'the Last Titan'
1+ mon, 2+ week 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....
Archaeologists Just Found Out What Neanderthal Kids Did When They Were Bored
2+ mon, 1+ week 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…...
Scientists Discovered a New Dinosaur Species in South Korea, and It's Named After a Cartoon
3+ mon, 2+ 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…...