11+ hour, 41+ min ago  (494+ words) Discover the engineering revolution transforming modern defense with Strength, Stealth, Speed: The Very Fast Future of Advanced Defense We usually picture carnivorous dinosaurs sprinting. This one appears to have wandered through its environment at little more than tortoise pace. Researchers…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (500+ words) This particular giant roamed Southeast Asia during the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 100 to 120 million years ago. Ten years ago, a few weathered bones sat at the edge of a quiet pond in northeast Thailand. Today, these remains belong to a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (452+ words) Researchers used dental microwear analysis to prove that "Good Mother" dinosaurs actively nurtured their offspring 75 million years ago. A groundbreaking study from Ohio State University has provided the earliest direct evidence that adult Maiasaura peeblesorums fed their young better food,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (386+ words) Hidden within blocks of rock for centuries, two ancient reptile cousins were recently rediscovered. Two hundred ten million years ago, two crocodile cousins tragically died side by side, according to Yale paleontologists who discovered this significant moment in time when…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (424+ words) Paleontologists have compiled anatomical and fossil age data to clarify how dinosaurs evolved through sporadic bursts of morphological change. A new study by Princeton and Yale Universities has revised the timeline of dinosaur origins, pushing it back by 10 million years....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (548+ words) The embryo preserved inside offers definitive proof that mammal ancestors were egg-layers. For the first time, paleontologists have discovered a 250-million-year-old fossil egg containing an embryo of a mammal ancestor. The embryo belonged to Lystrosaurus, a sturdy plant-eater that survived…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (457+ words) In certain species, a "third eye" or parietal eye still exists to detect light, while in humans, this feature has evolved into the pineal gland. Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines " jawless fish…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (642+ words) Almost every child in South Korea has grown up with Dooly: a pint-sized, emerald-green dinosaur with two iconic tufts of hair and a penchant for magical mischief. He is a cultural titan." Now, science has finally given the cartoon its…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (448+ words) The discovery centers on a well-preserved skull that measures less than 2. 5 centimeters (~1 inch) in length. Palaeontologists at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) have discovered a fossil in southern Brazil which is believed to be the smallest and youngest…...

3+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (530+ words) For ninety million years, a two-pound skeleton lay hidden in the red sandstones of Patagonia." It was small and fragile. And, as paleontologists now realize, it was the key to unlocking one of paleontology's most enduring mysteries. A team led…...