Scientists discover a 500-million-year-old worm “superhighway”
A new study from the University of Saskatchewan has shown that prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago.
Previously, scientists have thought...
Scientists discover fossils of oldest frog in North America
A new study led by Virginia Tech researchers has found fossil fragments of the oldest known frogs in North America.
The fossils included several small...
What really causes the dinosaur extinction?
A new study published in science has found that it seems increasingly likely that 66 million years ago, some catastrophes occurred on the Earth.
An...
This dinosaur-killer meteoroid metal can kill cancer cells
In a recent study, researchers find that cancer cells can be killed with metal from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
The results show that...
Scientists discover a Jurassic pterosaur in South America
Scientists from Argentina, the UK, and Germany recently find a new species of pterosaurs from the Patagonia region of South America.
Pterosaurs are flying reptiles...
The first Early Cretaceous damsel-dragonfly from western Liaoning, China
In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, damsel-dragonflies widely existed in Europe (e.g., Germany, Spain, England, and France).
So far, only two damsel-dragonflies have been found from...
How some birds survived but all other dinosaurs died
How dinosaurs were extinct 66 million years ago remains a question.
One theory is that an asteroid smashed into the Earth, which caused dramatic climate...
A rare small specimen discovered from the age of flying giants
In the age of dinosaurs, not all creatures were as big as we often think!
Scientists have recently found remains of a small flying dinosaur,...