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…
60-foot Octopuses Predators 100 Million Years Ago, Fossils Shows
Size comparison of N. haggarti to its contemporaneous competitors – credit, Hokkaido University The kraken: a giant squid…
First Ever Complete Skeletal Cast of 30-Foot Extinct Alligator–See it in Georgia
The scientifically accurate Deinosuchus skeleton – credit, Tellus Science Museum A museum in Georgia is now home to…
CAM photosynthesis may have conferred an advantage during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event
Lycopods sporophyll character identification and measurement The characters used to differentiate lycopods include root structure, overall plant morphology,…
The Cockroach of Dinosaurs Likely Survived Extinction Because of Its Big Wet Eggs
Fantastic numbers of leathery, beaked Lystrosaurus—a distant ancestor to today’s mammals, often the size of a small dog—roamed…
Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline
We sampled the cementum layer of 182 teeth excavated from Bury (Supplementary Table 1) and sequenced these to…
Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate
Anthony, M. A., Bender, S. F. & van der Heijden, M. G. A. Enumerating soil biodiversity. Proc. Natl…
Marine protected areas marginally offset anthropogenic declines in tropical reef fish contributions to nature and people
Carson, R. Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962). Hallmann, C. A. et al. More than 75 percent decline over…
Weird-Looking Marsupial Found Alive After 6,000 Years of Alleged ‘Extinction’
Field researchers call them “Lazarus taxa,” species once presumed extinct that suddenly appear to have risen from the…
Fossil Remains of ‘Weird’ Creature with Twisted jaw and Sideways Teeth Discovered
An interpretation of the strange creature Tankya – credit, Vitor Silva / SWNS The fossilized remains of a…
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts
Seidl, R. et al. Forest disturbances under climate change. Nat. Clim. Change 7, 395–402 (2017). Article Google Scholar …
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur
Bell, P. R. Standardized terminology and potential taxonomic utility for hadrosaurid skin impressions: a case study for Saurolophus…