1+ week, 3+ day ago   (262+ words) Say hello to Kayrasaurus changliensis 7:00 AM CDT on October 2, 2026 The Therizinosauria group of dinosaurs had a very distinctive look. These animals walked on two legs and boasted small, beaked heads at the end of long necks, a covering of feathers,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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?...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (200+ words) Meteorites were hot fashion accessories back then 10:00 AM CDT on August 14, 2026 The researchers also suspect the meteorite metal may have had a stopover on its journey from space to Greece. Finding meteorites in Greece is difficult, but they’re much more…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (140+ words) Sometimes you’re the predator, sometimes you’re the prey 9:00 AM CDT on August 3, 2026 It’s not often that you find the prehistoric food chain dramatically captured in a single fossil, but according to a new study published in the journal Gondwana Research,…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (339+ words) The record sale of a T. rex skeleton begs the question 5:07 PM CDT on July 14, 2026 This morning an as-yet unknown buyer paid a cool $50 million for one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found. $50,130,000 to be exact…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (198+ words) Its femur was larger than most people 1:30 PM CDT on May 15, 2026 Around 100 million years ago, a long-necked giant stalked the warm, subtropical grasslands of prehistoric Thailand—and it may have been the last of its kind. An international team of…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1063+ words) A conversation with paleobiologist Douglas Erwin about how novelty becomes true innovation in biological and cultural evolution 11:00 AM CDT on May 8, 2026 Erwin has written several popular books about transformative periods in evolutionary history, including the end-Permian mass extinction and the…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago   (330+ words) New alvarezsaur fossil offers a Cretaceous missing link 5:30 PM CST on March 5, 2026 Alvarezsaurs were strange, small dinosaurs adapted to feed on ants and termites. Their stubby arms, powered by big chest muscles, ended in single thumb claws, suggesting a digging…...