New Fossil Research Reveals Woodlice Cousins Roamed Ireland 360 Million Years Ago
New techniques used to recreate the image of the Oxyuropoda — the cousin of the garden woodlice. The old cousins of the common woodlice were…
Paleontology
Australia’s Largest Dinosaur – The Southern Titan – Has Just Stomped Into the Record Books!
What’s as long a basketball court, taller than a b-double and has just stomped into the record books as Australia’s largest dinosaur? It’s time to…
New Species of Bizarre, Extinct Lizard – So Strange It Was Misidentified as a Hummingbird-Sized Dinosaur
An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal first identified as a hummingbird-sized dinosaur was actually…
Two New Species of Ancient, Burrowing Mammal Ancestors Discovered in China
120-million-year-old animals evolved ‘scratch digging’ traits independently. A joint research team led by Dr. Fangyuan Mao and Dr. Chi Zhang from the Institute of Vertebrate…
New Species of Ancient Shark Discovered
In a new study, an international team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes a fossil skeleton of an ancient shark, which…
Meet the Massive Australotitan, the “Southern Titan” – Australia’s Largest Dinosaur!
It is time to meet Australotitan cooperensis, a new species of giant sauropod from Eromanga in southwest Queensland. Australotitan, the “Southern Titan of the Cooper,” named from…
Massive Predator: School Lesson Gone Wrong Leads to New, Bigger Megalodon Size Estimate
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65…
Puzzling Extinction Event Decimated Sharks 19 Million Years Ago
Nineteen million years ago, sharks nearly disappeared from Earth’s oceans, according to a new study, which provides evidence for a previously unknown mass ocean extinction…
First Tales of the Earliest Domesticated Goats Revealed by 10,000-Year-Old DNA
New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the remains of 32 goats that…
Arctic Rotifer Lives After Being Frozen for 24,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost
Bdelloid rotifers are multicellular animals so small you need a microscope to see them. Despite their size, they’re known for being tough, capable of surviving…
Temperature Explains Why the Greatest Variety of Aquatic Life Resides in the Tropics
Findings indicate global warming could reduce biodiversity in tropics. The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere…
Massive Die-Off Discovered by Accident: A Shark Mystery Millions of Years in the Making
The biggest shark attack in history did not involve humans. A new study by Earth scientists from Yale and the College of the Atlantic has…
Young Tyrannosauru Rex Had a Powerful Bite – Exerting Much More Force Than Previous Estimates
Juvenile tyrannosaurs tested their chops as they grew to become bone crushers like their parents. Jack Tseng loves bone-crunching animals — hyenas are his favorite…
Most Intense Burst of Evolution Ever Seen: Fossil Secret May Shed Light on Origins of Many of Earth’s First Animals
A large group of iconic fossils widely believed to shed light on the origins of many of Earth’s animals and the communities they lived in…
Tiny Magnetic Particles in Microscopic Fossils Record Ancient Climate Conditions
Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth’s climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, new land mammals evolved, tropical forests expanded, giant insects and…
Southern African Dinosaur Had Extremely Irregular Growth
Anyone who’s raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their growth seems to be. You leave for a…
Jebel Sahaba: Analysis of Bones Reveals a Succession of Violence Rather Than a Prehistoric War
Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Jebel Sahaba cemetery (Nile Valley, Sudan), 13 millennia old, was considered to be one of the oldest testimonies…
Extraordinary Evolution Research Reveals Mammals in the Time of Dinosaurs Held Each Other Back
A new study led by researchers from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, and the University of Birmingham for Current Biology…
