This Dinosaur Had the Claws of a Raptor but Hunted Like a Heron
Scientists have uncovered a fish-hunting raptor from Patagonia that may have stalked prey like a giant prehistoric heron.
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A day on Earth is described as 24 hours, but the planet has been slowing down for billions of years — and growth rings in ancient coral fossils show that 380 million years ago, hundreds of millions of
The length of a day on Earth is not constant. The planet’s rotation has been slowing for billions of years, primarily because tidal friction transfers rotatio...
When The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit, This Life-Form Feasted On The Death
In the wake of the catastrophic Chicxulub asteroid impact roughly 66 million years ago, three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth collapsed into e...
May: Research sheds new light on what shaped extinction pattern of marine life
Scientists have shown conclusively for the first time that tiny marine organisms in polar oceans survived the mass extinction event that wiped out prehistoric d...
Study: Early Complex Life Forms Were Bottom-Dwellers
Analyzing 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils from ancient Australian seabeds, paleontologists say ancient eukaryotes -- the ancestors of every plant, animal and...
This 100-Million-Year-Old Bug Had Crab-Like Claws Unlike Those of Any Insect Alive Today
It's a rare evolutionary experiment in insect weaponry.