Dinosaur Embryo Discovery Helps Crack Baby Tyrannosaur Mystery
They are among the largest predators ever to walk the Earth, but experts have discovered that some baby tyrannosaurs were only the size of a…
Paleontology
Jaw Dropping New Dinosaur Skull Discovery Reveals Evolution of Bizarre Crest
The first new skull of a rare species of the dinosaur Parasaurolophus (recognized by the large hollow tube that grows on its head) discovered in…
Harvard Scientists Reconstruct the Game-Changing Evolution From Fin-to-Limb in Early Tetrapods
It’s hard to overstate how much of a game-changer it was when vertebrates first rose up from the waters and moved onshore about 390 million…
Giant Ambush-Predator Worms May Have Colonized the Seafloor Around 20 Million Years Ago
Fossil Burrows Point to Ancient Seafloor Colonization by Giant Marine Worms Giant ambush-predator worms, possible ancestors of the ‘bobbit worm’, may have colonized the seafloor…
All-Purpose Dinosaur Opening – Used for Defecation, Urination and Breeding – Reconstructed for First Time
For the first time ever, a team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have described in detail a dinosaur’s cloacal or vent —…
Unusually Well-Preserved Genitalia on 50 Million-Year-Old Fossil Assassin Bug
The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists…
Accounting for the Gaps in the Fossil Record of Ancient Food Webs
If you want to understand an ecosystem, look at what the species within it eat. In studying food webs — how animals and plants in…
Pioneering Research Reveals How Teeth Functioned and Evolved in Giant Mega-Sharks
A pioneering study by University of Bristol researchers finds that the evolution of teeth in the giant prehistoric shark Megalodon and its relatives was a…
Native Biodiversity Collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean – Most Native Species Are Going Locally Extinct
Most native species are going locally extinct, while introduced tropical species thrive. The coastline of Israel is one of the warmest areas in the Mediterranean…
New Discovery on the Mysterious Family Life of Notorious Saber-Toothed Tiger
Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than expected. A new study by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)…
Sharing Leftover Meat May Have Contributed to Early Dog Domestication
Humans feeding leftover lean meat to wolves during harsh winters may have had a role in the early domestication of dogs, towards the end of…
Crocodiles Have Changed Very Little Since the Age of the Dinosaurs – New Research Explains Why
New research by scientists at the University of Bristol explains how a “stop-start” pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles have…
World’s Oldest Python Found in Messel Pit
Fossils suggest that the constrictors’ origin lies in Europe. Together with his colleague Hussam Zaher of the University in São Paulo, Senckenberg scientist Krister Smith…
Scientists Have Found the Most Elaborately Dressed-to-Impress Dinosaur Ever Described
Scientists have found the most elaborately dressed-to-impress dinosaur ever described and say it sheds new light on how birds such as peacocks inherited their ability…
Bizarre “Crazy Beast” That Lived Among the Dinosaurs Perplexes Scientists
The bizarre features of this mammal have scientists perplexed as to how it could have evolved; “it bends and even breaks a lot of rules.”…
New “Sea Dragon” Discovered on English Channel Coast by Amateur Fossil Hunter
An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a new type of prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ on the beach of the UK’s Dorset coast. The new 2m-long ichthyosaurus…
What Caused the Ice Ages? Tiny Ocean Fossils Provide Key Evidence
The ocean’s role in past atmospheric carbon dioxide change comes into focus. The last million years of Earth history have been characterized by frequent “glacial-interglacial…
Surprising Connection Discovered Between Prehistoric Dinosaurs and Mammals in Their Teeth
When most people think of ferocious, blade-like teeth on prehistoric creatures they picture Smilodon, better known as the saber-toothed tiger. But in the world of dinosaurs,…