Medicine & TechnologyThe fossil discoveries show that the cyclone may heavily contribute to the understanding of the creatures that lived in the area back in prehistoric times. Read to learn more.
Examination of Tanystropheus hydroides' bite marks from the Middle Triassic revealed a separate predator striking from above, brutally tearing its neck. Read the article to learn more details.
Successful duck-billed dinosaurs likely caused declines in dinosaur diversity. Read the article to learn how the discovery challenges current knowledge of the species geographic range.
The newly discovered dinosaur's skeleton was unearthed in the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah, which is a famed dinosaur graveyard. The remains were well-preserved and mostly complete. Read to learn more.
Despite having smaller brains, controversial research suggests that Homo naledi participated in burial rituals and potentially engaged in memorial practices. Tap the article to learn more about these extinct human species.
The person who discovered the mastodon tooth initially mistook it for driftwood, and it has taken a media blitz and a jogger to find it again. Read the article to learn more.
Upon analyzing footprint samples, researchers discovered that they found some 153,000-year-old prints among other tracks that date from 70,000 to 130,000 years ago. Read to learn more.
While an earlier study estimated that there were roughly 2.5 billion T. rex dinosaurs before, recent recalculations lowered this number to 1.7 billion. Read to learn more.
Researchers analyzed mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern China to the Americas, revealing migration patterns. Read the article to learn more details.
Meet the "tadpole from hell," a 330-million-year-old species that shed light on the evolution of tetrapods. Check out in this article how the reconstruction of its fossils helped scientists identify it.