Curiosities

Tue, 2021-04-20

Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found.

Wed, 2021-04-21

Mosasaurus and other mosasaurs ruled the seas for millions of years.

Tue, 2021-04-20

Studies of ancient mammal remains reveal how the planet’s biggest extinction event played out on land and in the sea.

Wed, 2021-04-21

Scientists have reconstructed the genomes of the extinct giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) and the ...

Wed, 2021-04-21

The Pokemon Fossil Museum will be a traveling exhibit exclusive to Japan that intends to both educate and entertain attendees.

Sat, 2021-04-17

A team of researchers from several institutions dubbed a 6.7-foot-long shark that lived 300 million years ago “Godzilla Shark” after discovering a fossilized skeleton in the Manzano Mountains about 30 miles southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Sat, 2021-04-17

Paleontologists estimate that the abundance of one of the best-known dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, at any one time was...

Sat, 2021-04-17

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 5.7-cm-long stegosaur footprint in Xinjiang province, China.

Fri, 2021-04-16

Paleontologists have found that the thin neck vertebrae of the azhdarchid pterosaurs got their strength from an intricate internal structure.

Wed, 2021-04-14

Opposed thumbs are adaptations to arboreal life and rare for non-mammal vertebrates; Kunpengopterus antipollicatus, a newly-discovered species of arboreal pterosaur that inhabited a unique forest ecosystem in what is now China during the...

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