Forgotten Fossil Helps Rewrite Part Of Animal Evolution
Depiction of Magnicornaspis garwoodi gen. et sp. nov. USNM PAL 801575. A Complete specimen. Boxes with solid lines…
New Crocodile Cousin Discovered After 210 Million Years Hidden in Stone
210 million years ago, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (left) is disturbed by Hesperosuchus agilis (right) near a Coelophysis carcass at…
Ancient Goose Fossil Challenges Long-Held Theories About New Zealand Birds
A reconstruction of the St Bathans goose (Metechen luti). Credit: Artwork by Sasha Votyakova, © Te Papa CC…
Human shielding from wolves facilitates jackal expansion across Europe
Hardin, G. The competitive exclusion principle. Science 131, 1292–1298 (1960). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Barnosky, A. D.…
Scientists Discover 43-Foot Sea Reptile Twice the Size of a Great White Shark
The holotype for the newly described Tylosaurus rex is a giant specimen displayed at the Perot Museum of…
Scientists Discover Terrifying Giant Crocodile That Hunted Human Ancestors
Artistic Illustration of Lucy’s Hunter Crocodile. Credit: Tyler Stone, University of Iowa. A newly named crocodile species from…
Europe Was Never a Giant Dark Forest, New 20-Million-Year Study Reveals
Artist’s reconstruction of what landscapes in Central Europe may have looked like during the Early Late Miocene, according…
Scientists Solve 320-Million-Year Mystery of Reptile Skin Armor
While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence…
Shockingly Powerful Giant Octopuses Ruled the Seas 100 Million Years Ago
Ancient octopuses may have been giant predators that ruled the seas. Fossilized jaws show they had crushing bites…
Scientists Unearth Remarkable 150-Million-Year-Old Stegosaur Skull
Illustration of Dacentrurus armatus. Credit: Adrián Blázquez / Fundación Dinópolis A newly discovered stegosaur skull from Spain is…
College Student Identifies Bizarre New Carnivorous Dinosaur Three Times Older Than T. rex
Artistic rendition of Ptychotherates bucculentus. Credit: Illustration by Megan Sodano for Virginia Tech. A distorted dinosaur skull, once…
Earth’s Crust Is Tearing Open in Africa, and It Could Form a New Ocean
Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling…