Fossilized Bee Nests Inside Skeletons Are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before
Scientists studying a Caribbean island cave have unearthed something unexpected: ancient bees very much unlike the hive-dwelling insects…
Ancient Bird Swallowed 800 Rocks and Choked to Death, Scientists Say
Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a…
Anacondas Are the Rare Prehistoric Giants That Never Shrank, Ssssstudy Reveals
During the Middle to Upper Miocene period (12.4 to 5.3 million years ago), giant animals walked—and slithered—the Earth…
Video shows towering dinosaur-like shoebill bird. What’s happening?
Shoebill birds can reach a height of five feet, but the prehistoric-looking creatures generally aren’t taller than people.…
Evidence of Rhino Living in Frigid Arctic Circle 23 Million Years Ago Discovered in New Fossil
Marisa Gilbert (left) and Dr. Danielle Fraser with fossil of Arctic rhino Epiaceratherium itjilik – Canadian Museum of…
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…
A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
Nesbitt, S. J. et al. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature 464, 95–98…
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…
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,…
Blood Vessels Found in T. rex Bones Rewrite What We Know About Dinosaurs
Dinosaur DNA remains out of reach, so scientists hunt rarer clues: soft tissues entombed in bone. Using synchrotron…