Curiosities
The evolutionary tale of birds is full of twists, turns and discoveries that continue to rewrite the history books. Paul Willis leads us through the maze.
Would you like to see and hold dinosaur fossils? Well, if you’re anywhere in India, they’re perhaps not too far from where you are!
These strange life forms dominated Earth’s seas half a billion years ago, and scientists have long struggled to figure out whether they’re algae, fungi, or even an entirely different kingdom of life...
According to reports, Dinosaur remains were found by a construction worker in Mowe, in the outskirts of Lagos.
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 kilometers wide hit Earth in what is today the Gulf of Mexico. It brought annihilation: All the dinosaurs except for the birds went extinct; forests around the planet vanished temporarily, killing off all bird...
You don’t normally think of dinosaurs doing the kinds of things that modern animals might do — like taking a nap in a grassy field or playing with each other as youngsters — but new research suggests that they may at least been taking the time to stop and smell...
As animal cloning becomes more and more commonplace, the idea of replacing your dearly departed dachshund may be losing some of its sizzle to what could be the next breakthrough: taking lessons learned from duplicating the Spots and Fidos of the world...
A three-month-old horse that lived up to 40,000 years ago has been discovered in the mysterious Batagai depression in Russia’s Yakutia region, nicknamed the ‘Gateway to the Underworld.’
An international team of paleontologists and other geoscientists has discovered the first North American co-occurrence of hadrosaur and therizinosaur...
The dinosaur was pulled from a site in 2008 in southern Utah near Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, painstakingly processed for about four years, and is now dubbed ...