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This Giant Crocodile Relative Weighed as Much as a Car And Preyed on Rhino-Sized Mammals
37+ min ago (560+ words) Crocodiles are among today's most feared predators, but their ancient relatives make today's crocs seem as threatening as a cuddle-prone kitty with a cold. It took a while, though: Since crocodyliforms arose more than 200 million years ago, they've gone through…...
A pangolin collected in 1836 sat inside a museum for nearly 190 years until scientists extracted its DNA and discovered the forgotten animal belonged to a species that had been hiding in plain sight
55+ min ago (885+ words) DNA from an 1836 museum pangolin skin proves the Himalayan pangolin is its own species, aiding efforts to fight illegal trafficking. By Kevin Montien · Editorial process An old museum specimen just settled a debate that scientists have been going back and…...
5 mysterious reptiles that are from dinosaur lineage
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (333+ words) The Times of India Do you know there are several reptiles that hail from the Dinosaurus family? While the story of their extinction by an asteroid strike dates back to 66 million years ago, when it had wiped out the famous…...
Reptiles and fossils abound at MDC
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (179+ words) A pair of young kids carefully touch at bearded dragon at the Minnesota Discovery Center event. CHISHOLM—Family Adventure Day featured fossils and snakes Monday at Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm. The event was originally MDC’s Fossils X3, but had been…...
Traces Left by Ancient Dogs, Unraveled by Scholars
13+ hour, 40+ min ago (131+ words) Published 24 Aug.2026 09:00(KST) 'Archaeoscience: Reading the Companionship of Dogs and Humans' Academic Symposium Poster / National Gaya Cultural Heritage Research Institute. Researchers in zooarchaeology and archaeoscience from Korea, China, and Japan will participate in the symposium and give presentations on "Current…...
Hunting for dinosaur bones in Canada: Go fossil digging in Drumheller, Alberta
4+ hour, 39+ min ago (554+ words) In this episode of Wildest Classroom, The Weather Network's reporter Mia Gordon travels to Drumheller, Alberta—the dinosaur capital of the world—to answer a question that's on every curious child's mind: how are dinosaur fossils found? RELATED: Go cave-diving…...
11-year-old boy finds huge tooth of Megalodon extinct for millions of years
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (578+ words) An 11-year-old boy on a family vacation in New Jersey has uncovered a remarkably rare piece of prehistoric history. Bo Bowers was exploring the beach in Sea Isle City with his father, Michael, when the pair noticed something unusual wedged…...
UC Berkeley researchers reconstructing the ancestry of more than 500 living human genomes identified DNA from two unidentified human lineages: one that diverged from ours roughly 800,000 years ago and interbred with Homo sapiens in Africa before 50,000 years ago, and another that separated around 1.8 million years ago and passed DNA to us indirectly through Denisovans—yet neither lineage has been genetically matched to any known fossil population.
5+ hour, 9+ min ago (1053+ words) A genome-tree method finds two unresolved layers of archaic ancestry, including an older contribution that appears to have reached living people through Denisovans. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit Living people may carry small…...
Zotefoams material brings life-size Megalosaurus sculptures to Blenheim Palace
8+ hour, 50+ min ago (330+ words) Five life-size sculptures of Megalosaurus have gone on display at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, combining precision manufacturing, advanced cellular materials and traditional hand craftsmanship to recreate the dinosaur first scientifically named more than 200 years ago. Each sculpture measures nine metres…...
Baxter County Library hosts a mystery-themed afternoon Aug. 29
6+ hour, 48+ min ago (179+ words) Christopher Fulton is an award-winning investigative journalist and U.S. Navy veteran living in Arkansas. Fulton graduated from the University of Memphis in 2020 summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. After seeing a void in Mountain Home’s local news market,…...