USC researchers, studying bones at the L.A. County Natural History Museum, have found evidence of a fearsome shark taking to the sky to take down a pterosaur, a formidable flying reptile. It was a prehistoric clash of the ages that didn’t end pretty when a monster in the sky clashed with the beast of the deep. The ...
Hundreds of hikers each day pass by the fallen boulder along the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. It might otherwise go unnoticed except for the 28 indentations — sloping tiny footprints left behind by a small, reptile-like creature about 310 million years ago — that cover the rock’s expansive surface. Steve Rowland, ...
The most severe mass extinction in Earth’s history occurred with almost no early warning signs, according to a new study by scientists at MIT, China, and elsewhere. The end-Permian mass extinction, which took place 251.9 million years ago, killed off more than 96 percent of the planet’s marine species and 70 percent of its terrestrial ...
The mouths of today’s crocodiles inspire fear and awe, with their wide gape and the greatest known bite force in the vertebrate animal kingdom. However, this apex predator of today and its modus of attack (its mouth) had humble beginnings. Ancient crocodiles were very different from today’s crocodiles. The very earliest crocodilians were very different ...
For now, there are just a few things researchers and students at the University of Kansas want people to dig about the new baby Tyrannosaur fossil they recently excavated in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. First off, it’s a “fabulous” complete section of the upper jaw with all of its teeth intact, along with bits of ...
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