Credit: Dimitris Siskopoulos/Wiki commonc, CC BY-SA Let’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction…
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Hollywood made the Dilophosaurus famous, depicting it as almost adorable little creature with a hidden, deadly twist. But a new study shows that it was…
Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in what would have been its natural environment in the…
Plotopterids like these Copepteryx grew to enormous sizes. Credit: Mark Witton New Zealand’s monster penguins that lived 62 million years ago had doppelgangers in Japan,…
An artist’s impression of Mukupirna nambensis living in central Australia that was much greener 25 million years ago. Credit: Peter Schouten / UNSW A giant…
The picture shows the seven species of bryozoans that were used in the debunking.The white line is only 500 micrometers in lenght. Copyright: JoAnn Sanner,…
Skulls and life reconstructions of the marsupial saber-tooth Thylacosmilus atrox (left) and the saber-tooth cat Smilodon fatalis (right). Credit: Stephan Lautenschlager A new study led…
In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious fossil in Antarctica that looked like a deflated football. For nearly a decade, the specimen sat unlabeled and…
The clutch of fossilized Protoceratops eggs and embryos examined in this study was discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia at Ukhaa Tolgod. Credit: M.…
A reconstruction of the ancient landscape of South Korea with crocodile track-makers. Credit: Dr Anthony Romilio University of Colorado Denver researcher Marin Lockley was a…
These giant mounds of fossil stromatolites from about 2.5 billion years ago are located in South Africa. For scale, notice a person’s dangling legs at…
A reconstruction of the ancient landscape of South Korea with crocodile track-makers. Credit: Dr. Anthony Romilio An international research team has been stunned to discover…
Three-dimensional virtual reconstruction of the braincase of the ankylosaur Bissektipelta archibaldi. Bones are semi-transparent and the internal contents of the endocranial cavity are seen. Pink…
Illustration of Borealopelta markmitchelli dinosaur by Julius Csotonyi. Credit: © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram (~2900…
The attached image shows Wightia declivirostris flying over an oxbow lake in the valley of the ancient Wessex River that flowed from Devon to the…
This is an artistic life reconstruction of Nannopterygius. Credit: Andrey-Atuchin The skeleton of an extinct ‘fish lizard’ locked in a glass case over 16ft from…
Antelope in South Africa. Pinnacle Point, a series of archaeological sites that overlook a now submerged section of South Africa’s coastline and one of the…
Life reconstruction of Priosphenodon avelasi. Credit: Nobu Tamura, CC BY-SA 4.0 Priosphenodon specimens found in Argentina show the Late Cretaceous reptile evolved to have resilient…
(Click image for full view.) This is an artist impression of Titanichthys. Credit: Mark Witton (used with permission) Scientists from the University of Bristol and…
Skull of Qihe 2, a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe Cave, Fujian, China. Credit: FAN Xuechun New ancient genomic research reveals information about human history in…