Scientists discover fossils of giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans 66 million years...
Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche.
With massive jaws and teeth like those...
More than one asteroid could have wiped out the dinosaurs
Scientists have found evidence of an asteroid impact crater beneath the North Atlantic Ocean that could force researchers to rethink how the dinosaurs reached...
60 million years of climate change drove the evolution and diversity of reptiles
Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a...
New Mexico Mammoths among best evidence for early humans in North America
The remains of two mammoths discovered in New Mexico show that humans lived in North America much earlier than thought.
About 37,000 years ago, a...
How dinosaurs carried their enormous weight
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land.
A University of...
Every bird has some dinosaur form, shows study
All baby birds have a moment prior to hatching when their hip bone is a tiny replica of a dinosaur’s pelvis.
That’s one of the...
Plesiosaurs weren’t just marine animals, show fossils in Sahara Desert
Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is...
Scientists discover fossil of Tiktaalik’s water-dwelling relative
A meme has been circulating online during the pandemic featuring Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic, four-legged “fishapod” that first made the transition from water to...
How life bounced back after 90% of species died off in history’s largest mass...
Scientists have discovered that bottom-burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period...
Scientists find rare wild ancestors of feral pigeons on British and Irish islands
Researchers led by members of Oxford University's Department of Biology have found rare colonies of the wild ancestors of common domestic and feral pigeons.
Already...