What can a dinosaur’s inner ear tell us?
If paleontologists had a wish list, it would almost certainly include insights into two particular phenomena:
How dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they...
Philippines once home to extinct giant cloud rats
The Philippines was once home to three previously unknown species of an unusual group of rodents with fluffy tails known as "giant cloud rats",...
How giant sauropods got their strange skulls
It was always going to be a big lift, piecing together the story of how sauropods — the long-necked, lumbering giants of the dinosaur...
Earth’s biggest mass extinction took ten times longer on land than in the water,...
Our planet's worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive volcanic eruptions caused catastrophic climate change.
The vast majority of animal species...
How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America? Billions!
How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the Cretaceous period?
That’s a question Charles Marshall pestered his paleontologist colleagues with for years until he...
450-million-year-old sea creatures had a leg up on breathing
A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures.
Contrary to previous thought, trilobites were leg breathers, with...
Scientists discover winged sharks in the Cretaceous seas
93 million years ago, bizarre, winged sharks swam in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
This newly described fossil species, called Aquilolamna milarcae, has...
Dinosaurs took 15 million years to get from South America to Greenland
A snail could have crawled its way faster.
10,000 kilometers (6,213 miles) over 15 million years—that’s how long it took the first herbivorous dinosaurs to...
Scientists find surprising history of world’s largest lizard
The unusual breeding history of the Earth's largest living lizard - the Komodo dragon - has been laid bare in a new study from...
Scientists close the case of what killed the dinosaurs
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs.
They definitively links dinosaur extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66...