The first dinosaurs might have been bigger than expected
An ancient leg bone uncovered in Africa might provide a step forward in understanding how dinosaurs and their close relatives evolved.
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An ancient leg bone uncovered in Africa might provide a step forward in understanding how dinosaurs and their close relatives evolved.
Three stories above the Field Museum's exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum's mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist Stephanie Smith picked up the pair ...
Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their children, researchers reported Wednesday.
Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and Kebara in northern Israel butchered their food in strikingly different ways, despite living close ...
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when ...
A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today.
Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago.
The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently only three times: in birds, pterosaurs, and, uniquely among mammals, in bats.
Imagine living in a place where a single drought, hurricane, or mudslide could wipe out your food supply. Across Africa, many communities do exactly that—navigate climate shocks like floods, heat waves, and failed harvests.
A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a previously unknown genus and species of Pliocene mole. The fossil was unearthed at the Camp dels Ninots paleontological ...