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It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards??? and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely
23+ hour, 57+ min ago (259+ words) It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely BBC Wildlife Magazine It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very…...
It looked like a rodent but don't be fooled, this was no rodent. This is thought to be the world's first primate??? and our ancestor
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (959+ words) Meet the tiny mammal that survived the dino-killing asteroid to became our earliest ancestor As the ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’ came to an abrupt end 66 million years ago, another evolutionary story began, the ‘Rise of the Primates’, and it starts…...
This snake's "outrageous" tail looks exactly like a spider. Scientists just looked inside it and found something odd
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (402+ words) Researchers examined the bone structure of the spider-tailed horn viper that lures dinner with an extraordinary flick of its tail. For the first time, scientists have been able to study the bone structure of one the more extraordinary serpentine tails…...
Woolly mammoth vs elephant:They look like giant, hairy elephants… but how different were woolly mammoths really? | Discover Wildlife Woolly mammoth vs elephant
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (340+ words) How different are elephants to woolly mammoths? Stuart Blackman explains how these two giant differ Woolly mammoths hold a special place in the part of the human brain that thinks about extinct species, where they jostle for space with dinosaurs…...
It clatters like a machine gun, has a deadly prehistoric-looking beak, can live for 25 years and can grow up to a whopping 1.5m tall with a wingspan of 2.6m | Discover Wildlife
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (805+ words) This bird can can stand still as a statue for hours, will stare you out and cruelly kill its sibling using its huge, razor-sharp bill This odd-looking bird is a charismatic giant that can live up to 25 years in the…...
When complete darkness fell on Antarctica, researchers used satellites to spy on one of its most secretive animals
1+ week, 5+ day ago (405+ words) Tracking the movements of emperor penguins is vital for conservation efforts, say scientists Credit: Dr Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey. Tracking the movements of emperor penguins is vital to understand their breeding cycles, which helps inform conservation efforts. But researchers…...
"It had two gigantic 20cm fangs that it used to tear apart its prey." 10 horrifying, terrifying prehistoric sea monsters that once ruled our oceans
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1312+ words) The seas have been home to some monstrous creatures over the course of the last 500 million years. Here are 10 that you’ll be glad are long extinct… For more than half a billion years, evolution has run amok in our world’s…...
It???s 3 metres long, shaped like a scythe and used to whip and stun prey??? this is the longest tail on the planet
2+ week, 6+ day ago (239+ words) While you might think that the record holder for the world's largest tail could belong to a whale, that's not technically true Strictly speaking, the tail-like structures found in everything from scorpions to mayflies are not true tails. Only vertebrates…...
Ichthyosaur pregnant with nearly a dozen babies discovered in China – and they were nearly ready to be born | Discover Wildlife
3+ week, 3+ day ago (451+ words) The fossilised marine reptile died with at least eleven foetuses inside her Shengxiao Gu et al. PeerJ 2026 Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles that patrolled the oceans of the Mesozoic era (251 million to 65.5 million years ago). Similar in appearance to modern dolphins,…...
Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, then a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to life
3+ week, 3+ day ago (730+ words) Everything within eight miles of the huge volcanic blast was wiped out almost instantly. More than 40 years later, scientists reveal how an unorthodox experiment involving burrowing rodents brought life back to the Washington State mountain. When Mount St. Helens erupted…...