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…
New Species of “Living Fossil” Fish Found Hiding in Plain Sight After 150 Years
Reconstruction of a large mawsoniid coelacanth from the British Rhaetian. Credit: Daniel Phillips Researchers found dozens of Triassic…
Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from
Skull of a female A africanus – credit, Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, From Ethiopia comes an incredible…
An Ancient Penis Worm With Rings of Sharp Teeth Has Been Discovered in the Grand Canyon
About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored…
Denver Museum Finds Fossil While Drilling Underneath the Parking Lot–an ‘Infinitesimally Small’ Coincidence
Credit, Richard M. Wicker – Denver Museum of Nature and Science For the staff at the Denver Museum…
An Even Scarier Predator Hunted Giant ‘Terror Birds’ in South America
Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ago, a young caiman came upon a tasty snack in modern-day…
Adorable Triassic Reptile Used its Freaky Back Fin to Communicate
Technological advancements have brought us many things. For paleontologists, it’s introduced the ability to probe softer material—skin, feathers,…
We Might Have Been Wrong About Where Spiders Came From
Technically speaking, every living thing on Earth can trace its origins to the sea. Some of these earliest…
Biggest piece of Mars on Earth going up for auction in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million.…