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Lion-sized Armadillo and Giant Tortoise Found in Texas Cave Surprise Paleontologists
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (661+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology Snorkelers exploring a dangerous underground stream found a hidden trove of ancient creatures. Deep beneath the limestone of Central Texas, an underground stream has yielded a submerged menagerie. Paleontologists snorkeled through the pitch-black waters of Bender's Cave…...
Curious 10-Year-Old Girl Spots 200-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints on a Beach in Wales
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (483+ words) Five footprints preserved in beach rock capture a dinosaur's steady walk across mud over 200 million years ago. An unlikely fossil discovery began with a playful walk along a beach in South Wales, when a 10-year-old girl noticed a set of…...
These footprints may be a massive turtle stampede from 80 million years ago
1+ week, 6+ day ago (395+ words) Over 1, 000 seabed tracks hint at a rare moment frozen in time'formed on a seafloor hundreds of meters deep in the Cretaceous. What looked like random grooves on a steep Italian cliff turned out to be footprints from nearly 80 million years…...
Bizarre Dinosaur With a Giant Sword-Shaped Crest Discovered During the 'Expedition of the Century' in African Desert
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1703+ words) A newly discovered Spinosaurus reignites fierce debate over whether these giant predators could actually swim. The Sahara Desert hides its secrets well. Under the scorching sun in a remote region of Niger, paleontologist Daniel Vidal spotted a strange bone protruding…...
Earth Is Missing a Billion Years of History. We Finally Know Why
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1027+ words) We thought global ice erased a billion years of history but new evidence points to ancient supercontinents. When geologist John Wesley Powell explored the Grand Canyon in 1869, he noticed a glaring omission in the rocks. A layer of rock just…...
Scientists Built a Heated Robot Dinosaur to Solve a 70-Million-Year Old Mystery About How Oviraptors Hatched Their Eggs
3+ week, 5+ day ago (872+ words) A life-sized foam dinosaur reveals that oviraptors relied on the sun to hatch their eggs. Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of blue-green eggs. Yet paleontologists have always…...
What Was the Very First Plant in the'World?
3+ week, 6+ day ago (683+ words) Home " Features " Natural Sciences " Biology " Plants and Fungi Plants changed the world. But first they had to make their way from the water to the land. Long before dinosaurs roamed the land, Earth looked very different from the planet we…...
Brutal New, 15-Foot Horned Crocodile Once Stalked and Hunted Our Ancient Human Ancestors in Ethiopia
1+ mon, 21+ hour ago (834+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia. Over three million years ago, the wetlands of ancient Ethiopia were dominated by an ambush predator that dwarfed early human ancestors…...
The Tiny, Shrew-Like Primate Ancestor That Survived the Dinosaur Apocalypse Lived in Colorado 66 Million Years Ago
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (802+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology These tiny teeth prove that our earliest relatives moved across North America much faster than we thought. Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the…...
Meet Foskeia: A Small Herbivore Dinosaur Shaking Up the Evolutionary Tree
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (601+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology "Terrible Lizards'That's the literal translation of the term Dinosauria, coined by Sir Richard Owen in the 19th century to describe the colossal bones early paleontologists were unearthing. For a long time, the name made sense. The dinosaur lineage…...