Curiosities

Mon, 2020-09-14

Overlooked fossil bones from Peace River region belong to ankylosaur from 95 million years ago

Sat, 2020-09-12

Separately at least one preserved carcass of a cave bear cub found on the mainland of Yakutia, with scientists hopeful of obtaining its DNA.

Sun, 2020-09-06

Kids today have access to all kinds of dino and other information with a few clicks, including this map that shows which dinosaurs lived in your area. Here’s how to...

Sat, 2020-09-05

A 16-m- (52.5-foot) long megalodon had a head 4.65 m (15.3 feet) long, a dorsal fin 1.62 m (5.3 feet) tall and a tail 3.85 m (9.4 feet) high, according to...

Wed, 2020-09-02

New ancient DNA study finds that Northern mastodon populations were less genetically diverse and more vulnerable to...

Tue, 2020-09-01

Paleontologists recently found well-preserved dinosaur eggs in an enormous nesting ground of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 80 million years ago (Cretaceous period) in what is now Patagonia, Argentina. In a ...

Tue, 2020-09-01

How do you weigh a long-extinct dinosaur? There are a couple of ways, as it turns out, neither of which involve actual weighing—but according to a new study, different approaches still yield strikingly similar results.

Sat, 2020-08-29

Scelidosaurus harrisonii, an armored dinosaur that lived around 193 million years ago (Early...

Thu, 2020-09-03

An international research team has discovered that dinosaurs developed yearly growth lines on their bones throughout their lives, a find that sheds light on growth patterns of the ancient animals.

Fri, 2020-08-28

Male lions typically have manes. Male peacocks have six-foot-long tail feathers. Female eagles and hawks can be about 30% bigger than males. But if you only had these animals' fossils to go off of, it would be hard to confidently say that those differences were...

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