3+ day, 19+ hour 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+ week, 12+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (312+ words) Yellowstone National Park is home to the world's most impressive geysers According to the United States Geological Survey, Echinus erupted regularly during the 1970s at 40- to 80-minute intervals before reaching peak activity in the 1990s when it spewed 40- to 60-foot tall fountains…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (242+ words) The Tanyka was a little like a platypus The jawbone, the team determined, belonged to a tetrapod species that they dubbed Tanyka amnicola, a living fossil even in its own day 275 million years ago. Many stem tetrapods died out after…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (330+ words) At the paleontology conference, her new theory was shouted down I wasn't fazed one bit as the tequila hit the table for the third time in an hour. You see, while I wore the name tag Matt Kaplan, Science Correspondent…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (318+ words) Dionisio Pulido watched as Paricut'n tore through his fields'suddenly, scientists flocked there from around the globe On this day in 1943, Dionisio Pulido was tending to his cornfield in Mexico when he witnessed geological history in the making. Over the previous…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (383+ words) How does our climate connect to what's going on inside our planet?" From space, planet Earth looks like a perfect sphere. But it's not. Obviously, the crust of the Earth is irregular, covered in jagged mountains and deep oceanic trenches,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (263+ words) Weird things are happening in Yellowstone National Park Strange things are afoot in Yellowstone National Park." Since July, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have been monitoring an uplift in the surface of the Earth spanning 19 miles near the Norris Geyser Basin....

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (255+ words) The newly discovered specimen shows how early herbivory evolved Pantylids were among the early pioneers in land colonization. Known as "stem amniotes" they were closely related to the first vertebrates that developed eggs capable of surviving on land without drying…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (285+ words) New research into burn-response genes shows evidence of accelerated evolution Our mastery of fire is one of the biggest things that sets humans apart from animals. We've used it to cook our food, temper our tools, warm our bodies, and…...