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Gondwana Really Was a Supercontinent
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (962+ words) And it helped kick‑start life on Earth 7:00 AM CDT on September 13, 2026 Some 550 million years ago, the Earth looked very different to what it does today. The Southern Hemisphere was dominated by an enormous, single continent known as Gondwana. This…...
How Did Birds Outlive the Other Dinosaurs?
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (257+ words) A preserved feather provides some essential clues 10:00 AM CDT on September 10, 2026 Paleontologists from the U.S. and China formed a hypothesis based on a fossilized poop, or coprolite, from a theropod dinosaur, found in Montana. Inside the poop were tiny, perfectly preserved…...
The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger???s Bite Was Unlike Any Other Predatory Mammal???s
1+ week, 6+ day ago (234+ words) Which makes its extinction even more tragic 1:30 PM CDT on August 31, 2026 Now a new study investigating the thylacine’s bite shows they likely never posed a threat to livestock at all. “The longer a jaw is, the faster its tip moves…...
Listen in on the Sounds of a Jurassic Period Forest
2+ week, 2+ day ago (194+ words) Behold the call of the katydid 3:00 PM CDT on August 28, 2026 Do you want to hear what the insects in a Jurassic forest in Mongolia sounded like? Obviously, there were no recording devices, let alone humans, 165 million years ago, but there…...
This???One-in-a-Million??? Fossil Has 450-Million-Year-Old Soft Tissue
2+ week, 5+ day ago (336+ words) Only the second fossil of its type to be discovered 11:30 AM CDT on August 25, 2026 Bones, shells, and teeth have a tough enough time surviving hundreds of millions of years. But soft tissue, like the skin and organs of an animal?...
Small Iguanodon Fossil Sheds Light on Dino Diversity
2+ week, 6+ day ago (180+ words) It lived in Japan long before Japan was an island 7:00 AM CDT on August 25, 2026 According to their analysis, the bone is the right half of the dinosaur’s sternum. Comparing its physical characteristics to other species, they determined the iguanodon it…...
Why It Might Be Time to Rethink the Human Family Tree
3+ week, 4+ day ago (867+ words) The way we classify humanity’s ancient relatives is a mess. But there’s a simple fix. 11:00 AM CDT on August 19, 2026 Each of these is a “genus,” the rank just above a species. (In Homo sapiens, Homo is the genus and sapiens is…...
Massive Prehistoric Crocodylians Took a Brutal Approach to Hunting
3+ week, 6+ day ago (326+ words) You wouldn’t want to see these eyes peering out of the swamp 1:00 PM CDT on August 17, 2026 The prey was abundant but similarly colossal—from towering ground sloths to prehistoric rhino relatives. Fossils belonging to a species from the latter group,…...