1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (398+ words) A new study overturns our understanding of Tyrannosaurus rex development: the dinosaur lived longer and took more time to reach its full size than previously thought. Previously, scientists often relied on the annual growth rings in the limb bones of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1026+ words) In the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a two-month-old wolf cub devoured the flesh of a woolly rhinoceros. In a moment its underground burrow collapsed, burying the cub and its sister. The wolf's stomach contents, frozen in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (818+ words) Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may shed light on an ancient puzzle: who were our earliest ancestors and what did they look like. In the Grotte " Hominid's cave, at Thomas Quarry near Casablanca, three…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (316+ words) The discovery in Stelvio National Park astonished by its scale: according to estimates, there could be around 20,000 footprints along a stretch of roughly five kilometers. Located not far from the Swiss border, this area had not previously been recorded as…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (557+ words) Scaly skin forming a crest along the back of a juvenile Edmontosaurus annectens, estimated to be about two years old at the time of its death. Tyler Keillor/Fossil Lab In the deserts of eastern Wyoming, the Lance Formation has…...