4+ hour, 3+ min ago   (414+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex, it turns out, may have taken its time becoming king. A new analysis of 17 tyrannosaur fossils suggests the giant predator lived longer than thought and never... T. Rex Took 4 Decades to Reach Full Giant Size Tyrannosaurus rex, it turns…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (449+ words) A newly described dinosaur seems to have come with its own built-in egg-grabber. In a study published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of... New Dinosaur Species Leaves Experts 'Flabbergasted' A newly described dinosaur seems…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (240+ words) A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum's first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms sounded. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was near the town of…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (592+ words) In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocat'petl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago   (417+ words) Monarch butterflies may hold the key to one of biology's biggest unsolved puzzles: how animals tap into Earth's magnetic field to find their way. In Texas, neurobiologist Robin Grob is performing microsurgery on monarchs, sliding hair-thin electrodes into their brains,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (375+ words) "Kablooey!" That's the word US Geological Survey volcanic experts used to describe a muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park on Saturday morning. Video shared by the USGS on social media shows mud spraying up and out…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (193+ words) A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (320+ words) The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (159+ words) Friday's quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main Japanese island, at a depth of 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) at 11:44 a.m., according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, which issued a tsunami advisory that was lifted…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (380+ words) A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after a stronger quake in the same region. Friday's quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu,…...