Hadrosaur double prints. Credit: Fiorillo et al, 2019 These trackways allow researchers to explore habitat preferences in high-latitude dinosaurs. Abundant dinosaur footprints in Alaska reveal…
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New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate. Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a…
Pictured is a tropical coastal lagoon at Sosnogorsk in Russia, about 372 million years ago. The lagoon is inhabited by various kinds of fish, but…
An artist’s rendition of the Tyrannosaurus rex with the 3D imaging showing muscle activation in its head. Illustration courtesy of Brian Engh. University of Missouri…
Photomicrograph of pyritized stromatolites from the 3.5 billion-year-old Dresser Formation. The stromatolites are delineated by pyrite, also known as fool’s gold. Credit: UNSW Sydney Western…
This is an artistic reconstruction of the short-faced kangaroo. Credit: Illustration by Nobu Tamura A new study by a University of Arkansas anthropologist suggests feeding…
Life reconstruction of Mystriosaurus. Credit: Julia Beier A prehistoric crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago has been identified — almost 250 years after…
Reconstruction of Mollisonia plenovenatrix, by Joanna Liang. Mollisonia was only about 2.5 cm long. Credit: Illustration by Joanna Liang © Royal Ontario Museum Two paleontologists…
An illustration: Aquilarhinus palimentus. ICRA Art The most complete skull of a duck-billed dinosaur from Big Bend National Park, Texas, is revealed in the Journal…
Stephanie Pierce explores the collections of tetrapod fossils inside the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer About 400 million years ago, vertebrates…
An artist’s rendering of how Suskityrannus hazelae may have looked. Artwork by Andrey Atuchin. A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex – much smaller than…
Artistic reconstruction of Callichimaera perplexa: The strangest crab that has ever lived. (Image credit: Elissa Martin, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History) The crab family…
Artist’s reconstruction of Chicxulub crater soon after impact, 66 million years ago. DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of…
This is a Gobiraptor reconstruction. Do Yoon Kim (2019) A new oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia, according to a study…