Curiosities
It isn't clear how and when feathered dinosaurs, the ancestors of present day birds, started to fly. Analysis of the...
Did you watch the 1993 movie blockbuster "Jurassic Park" and wonder, "Could this happen for real? Could the dinosaurs ever come back?"...
An opal, purchased a year ago, produced a most unusual discovery, as it contained an ancient insect embedded within it.
How did the earliest land animals move? Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved ancient footprints to create a moving robot model of prehistoric life.
Research have found that the bite force of finch is about 320 times more powerful than T. rex.
At this year's annual meeting of the Indian Science Congress (from Jan. 3 to 7), senior research scientist Kannan Jegathala Krishnan dismissed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity as "a big blunder" and said Isaac Newton didn't really understand how gravity...
Brazilian researchers used biogeographic analysis to study Trilobites, arthropods that became extinct over 252 million years ago....
In 1983, fossil hunter William Walker uncovered a giant claw in a brick pit in Surrey. A team of palaeontologists from the Museum began to investigate the site and had soon dug up one of the most complete meat-eating dinosaurs ever found in the UK....
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid collided with Earth more than 65 million years ago, it did not go gently into that good night....
Which came first: the dinosaur or the feather?