A recent study published in PeerJ examines the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils using cutting-edge research methodologies. In the final, large group of ichthyosaurs, one…
T. rex’s short arms may have lowered risk of bites during feeding frenzies. Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called…
Prehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research suggests. For the first 10…
Spinosaurus is the largest predatory dinosaur known — over two meters longer than the longest Tyrannosaurus rex — but the way it hunted has been…
Its close cousin Baryonyx probably swam too, but Suchomimus might’ve waded like a heron. Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered—even bigger than T….
The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China, new research suggests. The Cambrian Explosion,…
Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximizing their strength…
A new species of armored dinosaur has been described from China. It is the earliest fossil remains from this group to be found in Asia,…
Paleontologists describe sabre-toothed mammal new to science, offering view into evolution of meat-eaters. The fossil, housed in The Nat’s paleontology collection, offers a window into…
Cooler Waters Created Super-Sized Megalodon Megalodon expert leads the discovery of an intriguing pattern of the prehistoric shark. A new study reveals that the iconic…
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe,…
Bashanosaurus primitivus roamed the earth around 168 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic period, suggesting that stegosaurs may have originated in Asia. Relatively small,…
A new analysis of Tyrannosaurus skeletal remains reveals physical differences in the femur, other bones, and dental structures across specimens that could suggest Tyrannosaurus rex specimens need to…
Balkanatolia: The Forgotten Continent That Sheds Light on the Evolution of Mammals A team of geologists and paleontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years…
A new dinosaur which formed part of an array of “unusual” creatures has been discovered in Argentina. The new species, Guemesia ochoai, could be the…
The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. This conclusion was drawn by an international team of researchers after having…
The asteroid that killed nearly all dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. An international team of scientists from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Uppsala…
The fossilized remains of a young diplodocid – a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod – may provide the first evidence of a respiratory infection in a…
