13+ hour, 53+ min ago  (1069+ words) Snakes come in all sizes today, from tiny thread snakes no longer than a pencil to green anacondas that rival small cars in length. You already know the anaconda as one of nature's heavyweights. Adults often stretch four to five…...

12+ hour, 42+ min ago  (117+ words) The Abilene Public Library's Main Branch will host "Cretaceous Clash: A Dino Trivia Game" on Tuesday, July 21st, from 6: 00 p. m. to 8: 00 p. m. The event is a fast paced, dinosaur themed trivia game designed for adults, whether they're casual dino fans or budding paleontologists....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (345+ words) A front leg bone nearly as tall as a person lay buried beside a pond in northeastern Thailand. It was part of a skeleton so large it belonged to an animal about 27 meters long and weighing roughly 27 tonnes. That animal…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (405+ words) (News Nation) " A fossilized bone that sat in a collection drawer for four decades is now considered to be the first dinosaur artifact found in Antarctica. Researchers discovered the vertebra during a 1985 expedition to James Ross Island and assumed it…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (433+ words) The rediscovery of a giant megalodon fossil, long-lost since the 1980s, has led to new information about the giant shark's lifestyle, including that they reached up to 80ft in length. Researchers assessed a once-lost vertebral specimen of Otodus megalodon, the fossil shark…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (350+ words) Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Dinosaur hunters scouring a fossil field in the middle of the Sahara Desert uncovered a second species of Spinosaurus. The scimitar-crested Spinosaurus mirabilis, replete with fish-trapping jaws, is huge, measuring the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (914+ words) Spiders are famous for the business end of their bodies, the sharp mouthparts that seize prey and help explain their unnerving reputation. A fossil from 518 million years ago now suggests those structures were taking shape far earlier than the fossil…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (766+ words) In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall'literally. The way mammals stand and walk today, with limbs tucked neatly under the body, wasn't always the norm. Long…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (1020+ words) Picture this: you're a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so wrong you assume it broke underground. Then you find another one. Same weird twist. Then another. And another....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (220+ words) An alumni group affiliated with Western Washington University has shared images of a giant Pacific octopus that washed ashore recently in Bellingham. "Pictured is a local Marine Life Center staff member gathering data, giving us a chance to learn about…...