Curiosities

Wed, 2021-09-15

Using recovered DNA to “genetically resurrect” an extinct species — the central idea behind the Jurassic Park films — may be moving closer to reality with the creation this week of a new company that aims to bring back woolly mammoths thousands of years...

Wed, 2021-09-15

About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now...

Wed, 2021-09-15

A new genus and species of palaeoscolecid worm has been identified from two specimens found in the Burgess Shale-type deposits in Utah, the United States....

Sat, 2021-09-11

Dental cavities or caries is a common disease among modern humans, affecting almost every adult. New research shows that Microsyops latidens, a species of stem primate from the Early...

Sat, 2021-09-11

Paleontologists have described in detail for the first time the scaly skin of Carnotaurus sastrei, an abelisaurid theropod that lived in South...

Thu, 2021-09-09

Paleontologists have described the largest Cambrian hurdiid radiodont known so far, named Titanokorys gainesi...

Sat, 2021-09-04

The word's largest known triceratops skeleton, 'Big John', will be up for auction on 21 October at Paris, where it is expected to fetch up to €1.5m.

Sat, 2021-09-04

Petalodus is a small genus of Petalodontiformes, a intriguing group of extinct marine cartilaginous fish that flourished from the...

Wed, 2021-09-01

Everyone has heard of dinosaurs, and for most, the creatures are as fascinating as they are terrifying. But while scientists continue to uncover truths about these ancient creatures, what we know about their lives and behavior changes how we perceive them....

Wed, 2021-09-01

An incomplete fossil record hampers reconstructing the early evolution of caimans (subfamily Caimaninae). In new research, paleontologists from Germany and the United States have described two previously unpublished, 52-million-year-old fossils of a key caiman...

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