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This Velociraptor's Four-Winged Cousin Hunted Birds - AOL
1+ day, 3+ 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…...
Study Finds Evidence Moose Inhabited Southern Rockies Centuries Before Modern Reintroductions | Newswise
6+ hour, 30+ 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…...
Pterosaur Wings Were Probably Far More Varied Than Reconstructions Suggest
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (25+ words) The one thing every pterosaur reconstruction needs is the one thing no pterosaur fossil preserves. The wing membrane, that thin sheet of skin and muscle...
This four-winged dinosaur may have terrorized Earth's earliest birds
4+ hour, 12+ min ago (185+ words) A newly discovered feathered dinosaur called Jian changmaensis may be the missing predator responsible for mysterious piles of crushed prehistoric bird bones in China. The four-winged glider, a close cousin of Velociraptor, helps reveal how early birds and their dinosaur…...
A new dino fossil may solve an ancient murder mystery
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (181+ words) A newly described microraptor species may explain the avian carnage at a Chinese fossil site In this illustration, the newly-described dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, ambushes an early Cretaceous bird, Gansus yumenensus. How capable this gliding predator was at snagging prey in…...
Why Tardigrades Could Survive the End of the World
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (1030+ words) Chris is the co-founder of 'Animals Around The Globe' and a fervent wildlife enthusiast with extensive travels across diverse ecosystems worldwide. From exploring the marine wonders in the Azores and witnessing the vast savannas of Kenya, to delving deep into…...
The Secret of Animals That Can Breathe Through Their Skin
4+ hour, 30+ min ago (206+ words) Within diversity of animal life on our planet, some creatures have evolved remarkable adaptations that seem almost magical to human observers. Among these fascinating evolutionary marvels is cutaneous respiration'the ability to breathe through skin. While humans and many other mammals…...
The dawn of animal evolution saw a bizarre array of sea creatures
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (1169+ words) Newfound fossils show that animals with left-right symmetry emerged earlier than once thought Animals may have had a rich variety of complex body types far earlier than scientists had recently thought. A crucial moment in the history of life on…...
Two marsupial species once known to science only from fossils, and thought lost for more than 6, 000 years, have been confirmed alive in the rainforests of New Guinea's Vogelkop Peninsula " a discovery made possible by old museum specimens, rare field photographs, fossil fragments and the knowledge of Indigenous Tambrauw and Maybrat elders.
13+ hour, 23+ min ago (168+ words) ...
Our Ancestors Got Bigger in One Late Leap, Not a Slow Climb Toward Modern Humans
18+ hour, 54+ min ago (143+ words) Lay 386 fossil bodies out across two and a half million years and the shape they make is not the one you were taught. There is no tidy ramp, no steady...