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42+ min ago  (32+ words) A new genus and species of four-winged pennaraptoran dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern China is adding another twist to the story of how birds evolved from their dinosaur ancestors....

4+ hour, 27+ min ago  (928+ words) Home " Wildlife " 6 Crocodile Facts That Haven't Changed in Millions of Years All modern forms have long snouts, powerful tails, armoured skins and a sprawling gait, and many fossil forms are extremely similar. The basic crocodile blueprint hasn't required a major…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (100+ words) With his campus closing, 10, 000-year-old mastodon Elmer will be taken apart in Waterford and reassembled in Bloomfield Hills. .. Cranbrook is getting a mastodon, and it's a mammoth project Elmer the mastodon, dead for at least 10, 000 years, is on the move....

5+ hour, 47+ min ago  (352+ words) Home " News " The Largest Deep-Sea Creatures Ever Found Dwarfing the giant squid is the aptly named colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). With records suggesting weights of up to 1, 500 pounds, this predator boasts longer tentacles and a robust body. Native to the…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (605+ words) It was the first complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered, yet researchers knew remarkably little about it. After 160 years, a new study is finally revealing what scientists had been missing all along. More than 160 years after its discovery on England's Jurassic…...

5+ hour, 38+ min ago  (319+ words) Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates. The lack of a tadpole phase so early in life suggested there was no metamorphosis in this animal's life cycle, which led Pardo and Mann to hypothesize the…...

12+ hour, 2+ min ago  (159+ words) Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to fly, would have had more diverse wing shapes than current scientific reconstructions suggest, according to new University of Bristol-led research. The study is published in the journal Paleobiology today [Tuesday 23 June]....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (928+ words) Thanks to Jurassic Park, velociraptors are the best-known of the bird dinosaurs, known as dromaeosaurs. However, a new member of the dromaeosaur family has been discovered that is far larger than its famous cousin. It may be time for the…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago  (540+ words) This giant animal was already alive when hannibal walked the earth, and it stayed in the same spot for 23 centuries, quietly surviving the rise and fall of civilizations before its extraordinary story finally came to light. When the sponge first…...

12+ hour, 47+ min ago  (382+ words) Newswise " June 23, 2026- New research by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, archivists and Tribal cultural heritage leaders suggests moose inhabited Colorado's southern Rocky Mountains centuries before state wildlife reintroductions began in the late 1970s. The study draws on archaeological evidence, historical records…...