12+ hour, 37+ min ago  (341+ words) Published Mar 12, 2026 12:00 PM EDT The sheer size of the tyrannosaur's leg bone caught the team by surprise, but so did its placement among the rocks. "That it is a very large tyrannosaur for its time, and much older geologically than…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (477+ words) Published Mar 3, 2026 7:05 PM EST It was also an extremely strange creature. So strange, in fact, that paleontologists initially thought they were looking at an ancient aberration when they discovered the first jawbone of this salamander-esque creature in a dry riverbed…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago  (135+ words) Published Feb 19, 2026 2:00 PM EST "This find was so sudden and amazing, it was really emotional for our team," said study co-author Paul Serano. "I envision this dinosaur as a kind of "hell heron" that had no problem wading on its…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (360+ words) Published Feb 18, 2026 4:00 PM EST A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, tells a gory story. The skull from a large plant-eating Edmontosaurus has a tooth lodged into it, indicating that it may…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (471+ words) Prehistoric Japan was home to cave lions'not tigers'Popular Science Present-day Japan may see its fair share of bears, but the islands" big cat populations are long gone. Between 129,000 and 11,700 years ago, temporary land bridges allowed the ancient predators to migrate…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (467+ words) Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer focused primarily on tech, AI, physics, and culture news. He was previously a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has been featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, McSweeney's Internet…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (258+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 4:15 PM EST "For a long time, there have been very few things that we could say really characterize the transition from terrestrial dinosaurs to flying bird dinosaurs," explained Jingmai O'Connor, the associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (369+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 2:37 PM EST In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry with school friends. He kept the fossil for years, eventually becoming a paleontologist himself. Over six decades later,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (882+ words) By Emily Hunt, David Raubenheimer, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli / The Conversation Published Jan 30, 2026 2:00 PM EST This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the water, each…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (195+ words) Published Jan 30, 2026 1:27 PM EST But MNG 17001 doesn't look anything like a coprolite. The bone fragments aren't housed in a sedimentary matrix, and it had very low phosphorus levels. Taken altogether, the team knew they were looking at a regurgitalite, or…...