Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia's largest back-boned animals鈥攄inosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic Rhoetosaurus, the Cretaceous Wintonotitan, and other large sauropods.
Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery鈥攆ossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in Australia. These finds ...
A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the "dream" revelation of a new 30-million-year-old species of the ancient apex predatory carnivore, Hyaenodonta.
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled in with sediment over time, preserving the animals where they lay until ...
Researchers at the Biomimetics-Innovation-Center, Hochschule Bremen鈥擟ity University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering discoveries about how mechanical stress shapes the ultrastructure of starfish skeletons. Published ...
I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter's wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin it into a graceful curve.
Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the 1960s by fishermen dredging ...
In the global effort to combat climate change, large-scale, plant-based strategies such as planting forests and cultivating biofuels are an increasingly important part of countries' plans to reduce their overall carbon emissions, ...
Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever take to the skies, with wingspans of ...
A new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth's history may have driven lampreys apart鈥攇enetically speaking. The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our current changing climate. ...
