This artist’s illustration of Yamatosaurus izanagii (center) represents its ancestry to more advanced hadrosaurs (in the background). Credit: Artwork by Masato Hattori An international team…
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Galería de las Estatuas cave site in northern Spain. Credit: Javier Trueba – Madrid Scientific Films For the first time, scientists have succeeded in extracting…
Loch Torridon A billion year old fossil, which provides a new link in the evolution of animals, has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. Scientists…
Skulls of early Homo from Georgia with an ape-like brain (left) and from Indonesia with a human-like brain (right). Credit: M. Ponce de León and…
A skull of the extinct horned crocodile from Madagascar (Voay robustus), which is part of the American Museum of Natural History’s paleontology collection. Credit: M.…
Illustration showing how the three new species of fossil cloud rats might have looked. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum Fluffy rodents twice the size…
The skeleton of Trix at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Credit: Mike Bink Humans and animals have a preferred walking speed. This is, in part, influenced by…
Tarantulas are among the most notorious spiders, due in part to their size, vibrant colors, and prevalence throughout the world. But one thing most people…
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the extinct mammal community recovered at the fossil site of Els Casots (Spain), dated around 16 million years ago, which is an…
Analysis of what’s known about the dinosaur leads to conclusion there were 2.5 billion over time. How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the…
This illustration shows an artist’s rendering of a pterosaur (Alanqa saharica). Credit: Davide Bonadonna Little is known about azhdarchid pterosaurs, gigantic flying reptiles with impressive…
Gray wolves take down a horse on the mammoth-steppe habitat of Beringia during the late Pleistocene (around 25,000 years ago). Credit: Julius Csotonyi Gray wolves…
Ecological reconstruction of Pelretes vivificus vesting angiosperm flowers in the Burmese amber forest (~99 Ma). Credit: Artwork by Mr. Jie Sun An amber fossil of…
Skulls of early Homo from Georgia with an ape-like brain (left) and from Indonesia with a human-like brain (right). Credit: M. Ponce de León and…
Researchers found that the cataclysmic asteroid impact that resulted in the destruction of nearly 75% of all terrestrial life on Earth drastically restructured tropical forests,…
Credit: UCR Trilobites Had a Leg Up on Breathing A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures.…
Artist’s impression showing one eagle shark. Credit: © Oscar Sanisidro Introducing a “bizarre” shark from the Late Cretaceous that, more than 66 million years ago,…
The plant-eating pareiasaurs were preyed on by sabre-toothed gorgonopsians. Both groups died out during the end-Permian mass extinction, or “The Great Dying.” Credit: © Xiaochong…
About 66 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatan, plunging the Earth into darkness. The impact transformed tropical rainforests,…
The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert: More than 100,000 years ago, people used the so-called Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter…