Scientists discover an ancient die-off greater than the dinosaur extinction
When significant oxygen entered the atmosphere, ancient life multiplied.
But after a few hundred million years, Earth’s oxygen plummeted, resulting in a die-off likely...
Scientists discover world’s smallest fossil monkey in Amazon jungle
A team of Peruvian and American scientists has uncovered the 18-million-year-old remains of the smallest fossil monkey ever found.
A fossilized tooth found in Peru's...
Here’s how Jurassic mammals went from big gulps to small swallows
Researchers have found the earliest known evidence of a mammal predecessor with sophisticated bones at the back of the neck that allowed for swallowing...
This bird-like dinosaur is the oldest unearthed in North America
A team of paleontologists from the UK and US have identified a one of a kind 150 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton.
The specimen has been classified...
Scientists discover over 80 small horned dinosaurs
With fossils from more than 80 individual dinosaurs, Auroraceratops rugosus, an early horned dinosaur is one of the best represented dinosaur species ever found.
Many...
Scientists find new species of lizard in stomach of Microraptor
Scientists have discovered a new specimen of the volant dromaeosaurid Microraptor zhaoianus with the remains of a nearly complete lizard preserved in its stomach.
Their...
‘Dinosaur metal’ may help kill cancer cells
In a recent study, researchers found that a new compound based on iridium can attack the nucleus of cancerous cells when switched on by...
Some extinct crocodiles in dinosaur eras were vegetarians, says study
Scientists have found that multiple ancient groups of crocodyliforms—the group including living and extinct relatives of crocodiles and alligators—were not the carnivores we know...
Scientists find lots of strange microbes in dinosaur fossils
Bad news, Jurassic Park fans--the odds of scientists cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero.
That's because DNA breaks down over time...
1.2 billion years ago, a 1-kilometer asteroid smashed into Scotland
In 2008, scientists from Oxford and Aberdeen University made a startling discovery in the northwest of Scotland.
Near the village of Ullapool, which sits on...