2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (568+ words) One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn't lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning. "It's just hard to comprehend the energy that is necessary for a volcano to keep spewing lava every 15 to 20 minutes," remarks…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (524+ words) Last year, National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson was in Corral Bluffs on the outskirts of Colorado Springs, searching for minuscule fossils. His tool of choice? A unique filtering machine called a "bubbler." "To find these three teeny tiny teeth we…...

2+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (215+ words) Invertebrates are animals without a backbone or bony skeleton. They range in size from microscopic mites and almost invisible flies to giant squid with soccer-ball-size eyes. This is by far the largest group in the animal kingdom: 97 percent of all…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (1485+ words) Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question. "It was amazing," recalls Vidal, of the University of Chicago. "It was like a unicorn." Back in 2022, when he stumbled upon the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (557+ words) The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal's complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years....

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (329+ words) New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like Neanderthals. Around 770,000 years ago, a small windswept cave overlooked grassy plains and trees in what today is southwest Casablanca in…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (512+ words) A handful of unique fossils are spilling the secrets of dinosaur courtship and reproduction." Bertozzo's Olorotitan discovery revived the notion. The broken bones could be the long-sought evidence of how dinosaurs mated. Paleontologists have never doubted that dinosaurs copulated just…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (409+ words) A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. "This was not just a fossil concretion containing a new species of a rare type of pterosaur,…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (230+ words) Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil's age with stunning accuracy. Eggs laid by dinosaurs have provided paleontologists with a new way to tell prehistoric time. By looking to radioactive minerals taken up by eggshells in the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1042+ words) Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline'and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Around 66 million years ago, during the Northern Hemisphere's spring, a six-mile-wide asteroid struck what is now the Yucat'n Peninsula....