Meet the Weirdly Wonderful ‘Frosty’ Rhino That Once Roamed the Canadian Arctic
When you think of rhinoceroses, chances are you think of regions like Africa and Asia, not North America.…
Mongolian fossil fills 15-million-year gap in dinosaur behavior and evolution
It was a gray morning on the steppes of central Mongolia when paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig spotted something glinting…
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades
Raup, D. M. Biological extinction in Earth history. Science 231, 1528–1533 (1986). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Benton,…
A Plant-Eating Croc? Newly Identified Species Demonstrates Crocodilian Versatility
Illustration by Dane Johnson, Museum of the Rockies – released to the press Measuring no more than 2…
From a 20-Foot Poop Pile, Scientists Uncover the Secrets of Giant Sloths
Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests, and open savannahs. These differences in habitat…
Mastodon Migrations With the Glaciers Ice Revealed in New Paper
Giant elephants were more diverse than we had appreciated, it turns out. A new study published Friday in…
Dinosaur-Hunting Croc Cousin With Monster Jaws Unearthed in Patagonia
Kostensuchus atrox – life restauration, 3 meters long. Credit: Gabriel Diaz Yanten, CC-BY 4.0 Seventy million years ago,…
Prehistoric Skull Found Fused to Cave Wall May Have Belonged to Mysterious Ancient Hominid
In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on…
50-Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Unearthed in Syria Stuns Paleontologists
Carapace of Syriemys lelunensis: The genus name combines the Greek words Συρία (Suría) and ἐμύς (emús), i.e., “Syria”…
What Dinosaur Teeth Reveal About Life 150 Million Years Ago
Photo of teeth in a jaw section of Giraffatitan from Tanzania (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, MB.R.2180.20.5). The light-coloured…
Brazilian Scientists Solve 50-Year-Old Fossil Enigma With Discovery of New Plant Genus
Fossil of the prehistoric plant Franscinella riograndensis, found in the Paraná Basin and dated to approximately 296 million…
‘Jaw-droppingly weird’ dinosaur from Morocco was studded with spikes
Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the…