1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (331+ words) 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 the asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago wiped out most large life on…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (363+ words) In April, Polish fashion brand Enfin Lev" dropped a bombshell straight from the late cretaceous period: a handbag they claim is made of "lab-grown T-rex leather." The startling announcement made headlines throughout the luxury design world, which was quick to…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (234+ words) According to researchers publishing their enormous findings this week in the journal Scientific Reports, paleontologists in Thailand have identified a new species of a massive sauropod that may be the largest ever discovered in Southeast Asia. They also released an…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (277+ words) 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 difficult to, say, imagine what Neanderthal children did with their…...

1+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (633+ words) When a 125, 000-year-old elephant skeleton, pierced by a wooden spear, was discovered in an ancient lake bed in Germany in 1948, it was assumed that the Neanderthals who inhabited Europe at that time were not sophisticated enough to hunt such massive…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (763+ words) Everyone has come across a chelicerate. This diverse group of arthropods contains more than 120, 000 known species, including spiders, scorpions, mites and horseshoe crabs. Each of these critters is armed with a pair of chelicerae, a pincer-like appendage adapted for snatching…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (395+ words) The world's largest Tyrannosaurus rex statue needs a new home. Tyra, located in the Canadian Badlands, is a gigantic kitschy roadside attraction that, like the dinosaurs she is based on, is facing extinction. The 86-foot-tall T. rex that weighs in at…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (263+ words) According to a study published in the Fossil Record, paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species, the first of its kind ever found there. They did so using a rare partial skull and named the new species…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (413+ words) Examples of how the world is catering exclusively to the wealthy are everywhere you look. From trips to Disney to new cars, only the wealthy can afford anything anymore. Perhaps the most cartoonish example of the rich snatching up things…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1364+ words) Vanya Gregor Rohwer slid open a drawer to display the rich pink spread wing of a roseate spoonbill, one of thousands of mounted wings at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. He pulled up a long flight feather to expose,…...