2+ week, 2+ day ago  (341+ words) It wasn't a great time to be a beluga-like whale 11: 00 AM CDT on March 31, 2026 Forty years ago, a teenager looking for fossils with his dad on a beach in Belgium found a whale skull. Later, another father-son pair stumbled across…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (173+ words) Thanks to crickets and relatives playing their "washboards" 11: 00 AM CDT on March 30, 2026 There is an exception, however: bugs. The sound-making organs of some insects are made of hardened chitin that, unlike in vertebrate animals, fossilizes under the right conditions. And…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (362+ words) Snorkeling scientists uncover a treasure trove of megafauna fossils in a flooded cave 9: 26 AM CDT on March 30, 2026 Swimming through a flooded underground cave littered with bones might sound like a nightmare, but for paleontologists at the University of Texas the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (393+ words) Ancestor of humans and other great apes turns up in Egypt 4: 30 PM CDT on March 27, 2026 As an inquisitive species, humans are interested in figuring out where we came from. Paleontological evidence has shown that the great ape lineage of "hominoids,…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (451+ words) The secretive reptile has confounded researchers for decades 4: 30 PM CDT on March 26, 2026 Slithering through the damp leaf litter, deep in the forests of Taiwan is an elusive creature that's been causing confusion for decades'the Formosan legless lizard. Now, researchers are…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (375+ words) These paleontologists got crafty 4: 30 PM CDT on March 20, 2026 Dinosaur eggs are rare, but oviraptors, small birdlike dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period around 70 million years ago, left behind plenty for paleontologists to study. Their fossilized nests have provided…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (394+ words) These egg-laying oddities are more birdlike than previously thought 6: 00 PM CDT on March 18, 2026 One glance at the platypus and you'll forgive the naturalists who assumed it was a clever hoax upon first encountering preserved specimens more than 200 years ago. After…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (100+ words) " and their travails as they encountered early humans 1: 03 PM CDT on March 13, 2026 Ultimately, though, this particular migration wasn't a good thing. Because it was at Neumark Nord that they met the Neanderthals'and subsequently, their cruel fate. It was a childhood…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (231+ words) It was a childhood crawler before it walked upright 10: 44 AM CDT on March 9, 2026 Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto The forest-dwelling S. cedrus was only 25 inches tall (about the height of a Canada goose) and had the typical characteristics of shuvosaurids, but a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...