After watching a sci-fi movie, you might have wondered why life on Earth evolved the way it did. Why don’t we have three-legged…
In a time where survival of the fittest means relatively nothing and most humans live to procreate despite illness, poverty and infertility, scientists…
Last week, a North Carolina man became a notorious microbial killer’s first confirmed victim this year. Fifty-nine-year-old Eddie Gray had unknowingly come across…
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Sauropods that tower above treetops and tyrannosaurs that make the Earth tremble beneath their weighty footsteps are two iconic dinosaur images. These prehistoric giants have…
First scampering onto the scene around 230 million years ago, theropod dinosaurs were some of the biggest predators on the block — and…
Apparently adolescent tyrannosaurs took the term “baby food” a bit too literally. According to a report in Science Advances, researchers recently analyzed the…
Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season instead brought…
Cooling 5,000-pound, armor-plated giants was no small feat. Full Transcript Horns, spikes and bony plates—dinosaurs developed many adaptations to protect themselves. But paleontologist…
Researchers have announced the discovery of bone tools in a cave in Morocco that appear to have been used to carefully remove skins…
A team of South African and American archaeologists exploring the Rising Star cave system in central South Africa discovered something that seems quite…
Updated 13 November, 2021 - 13:57 Sahir Homo erectus , literally upright man, is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene,…