Australotitan cooperensis, “Southern Titan of the Cooper.” Credit: Vlad Konstantinov, Scott Hocknull ©Eromanga Natural History Museum It is time to meet Australotitan cooperensis, a new species…
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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…
A new study by Earth scientists from Yale and the College of the Atlantic has turned up a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million…
Indentation of several goat hooves in a brick from the archaeological site of Ganj Dareh. Credit: The ‘Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project’ New research…
A new study has turned up a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago. The biggest shark attack in history did not involve…
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…
Drs. Minter and Bath Enright, of the University of Portsmouth’s School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, studied the Burgess Shale area of British Columbia,…
Transmission electron microscope images of magnetofossils with examples of cuboctahedra (top center, rounded) and elongated prisms (bottom center, square). Credit: Courtney Wagner/University of Utah Fifty-six…
Reconstruction of Massospondylus carinatus. Credit: Dorling Kindersley Anyone who’s raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their growth…
Archival photograph illustrating the double grave of individuals JS 20 and JS 21, Jebel Sahaba cemetery. Pencils indicate the position of associated lithic artefacts. Credit:…
Early lineages of mammals, like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Art by Corbin…
Life reconstruction of the new Cretaceous fossil turtle species Pleurochayah appalachius from the Arlington Archosaur Site in the Woodbine Group of Texas. Credit: Brent Adrian/Midwestern…
An illustration showing Lystrosaurus during the end-Permian mass extinction. Credit: Gina Viglietti Our planet’s worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive…
With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi, discovered in New Mexico, lived 82 million years ago. It predated its better-known relative, Triceratops. Credit:…
Pluridens would have reached up to eight meters long. Credit: Andrey Atuchin Scientists have identified the fossil of a giant mosasaur in Morocco that grew…
Life reconstruction of Sahonachelys mailakavava, preying upon tadpoles of the giant Madagascan frog Beelzebufo ampinga using specialized suction feeding. Credit: Artwork by Andrey Atuchin A…
The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it…
Shuvuuia deserti artist’s reconstruction. Credit: Viktor Radermaker The tiny desert-living dinosaur Shuvuuia had extraordinary vision and owl-like hearing for nocturnal life in the Mongolian desert.…
The first and most complete fossil of Besanosaurus leptorhynchus is a pregnant female (containing one embryo) on display at the Milan Natural History Museum, together…
Ecological reconstruction of the Zhangpu biota. Credit: NIGPAS Newly Discovered Miocene Biome Sheds Light on Rainforest Evolution An international research group led by Prof. WANG…