Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.
The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class: During a […]
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Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905
I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new […]
Science Art: Ceratosuchops inferodios life reconstruction, by PaleoGeekSquared
This is a kind of spinosaur-ancestor dubbed “the hell heron” by some dramatically minded scientists. C. inferodios was identified in 2021 from some fossil fragments […]
A beaked dinosaur in Utah named for the god Janus.
Smithsonian Magazine covers the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Iani smithi, that’s part of a little-known group of dinosaurs that were around just […]
Out of Africa, yes, but all over Africa and not all at once.
New York Times rewrites human prehistory with a genetic study that replaces the tree of life – a diagram of human origins with one trunk […]
Big ol’ brontotheres.
Science News reports on new discoveries shedding light on how prehistoric mammals grew so dang big, evolutionarily, once the dinosaurs cleared out: Brontotheres were among […]
Science Art: Skull of Trinocromerum willistoni, Dorothea Franzen,1944.
This is the head of a plesiosaur from Kansas, back in the day when Kansas was an inland sea. Or a picture from back in […]
Australia’s first sauropod skull.
Scientific Frontline reports on a Diamantinasaurus skeleton that’s chalked up a few Australian firsts after being discovered in Queensland: Lead researcher and paleontologist Dr Stephen […]
Not that you’d want to kiss them, but T. rex actually had lips.
AP News reports on research into the fearful mouth of the scariest of flesh-eating dinosaurs which found that – despite the public image of Tyrannosaurus […]
Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.
This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstructed from a fossil. The fossil came […]
Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.
This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “Afro-Arabia,” a continent that existed many millions of […]
Dinosaurs had songs. Not so much roaring as something more melodic.
BBC reports on new research reconstructing the sounds of the dinosaurs, the honks, hoots, chirps, and vibrating grunts that the giant creatures used to communicate […]
Millions of years ago, when Earth was ruled by giant… crabs?
EurekAlert reveals new evidence of an age long before the dinosaurs, a primeval world 470 million years ago when the world was ruled by giant […]
Paleontology drama: Scientist accused of faking asteroid-death data to scoop colleague.
Science is not a publication normally given to interpersonal conflict. But now it’s covering the story of the weird competition between Robert DePalma and Melanie […]
Otters as big as lions, there were. As big as grizzly bears.
Atlas Obscura introduces us to Enhydriodon omoensis, a newly classified prehistoric otter that roamed the Omo river valley of Ethiopia, hunting its prey and weighing […]