If you swam in the ocean 251 million years ago, here’s what would’ve probably eaten you
Nowadays, sharks are often seen as the most feared creatures roaming the world’s oceans, but what we think of as modern sharks have only been …
Dinosaurs
Luckiest kid ever finds 1.2 million-year-old fossil by accident
Like just about every kid, 10-year-old Jude Sparks loves dinosaurs. I mean, how could he not? They’re big, cool looking, and they’re the stars of …
Scared of dinosaurs? This colossal prehistoric crocodile was even more frightening
Movies like Jurassic Park paint the Tyrannosaurus Rex as a ferocious hunter capable to crushing bones (and Jeep Grand Cherokees), but more recent research suggests …
99-million-year-old bird found preserved in amber stuns scientists
Archeologists have just discovered a nearly complete bird, encased in fossilized tree sap, that has remained intact for almost 100 million years. The bird, which …
Scientists just destroyed our dreams of a real Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park — you know, that silly little novel-turned-movie about mankind bringing dinosaurs back from the dead that made a measly $1 billion — is …
New discovery shows T-rex’s bite could make bones ‘explode’
Everyone knows that the Tyrannosaurus rex — the mighty “king” of the dinosaurs — was a fearsome carnivore. There’s been plenty of debate over how …
Scientists just discovered something incredible about the dinosaur-killer asteroid
Determining why the dinosaurs went extinct has been debated for ages and studied for even longer. Now, the most acceptable extinction event hypothesis — that …
Researchers found a dinosaur that still has its skin and guts
When archeologists hunt for fossils what they’re typically after are bones, footprints, and other fossilized traces of ancient creators having once roamed the planet. What …
Scientists just found the largest dinosaur footprint ever
Dinosaur discovery news doesn’t find its way to the mainstream all that often these days, simply because it’s hard for scientists to sell each individual fossil …
Ridiculously lucky scientists find feather-covered dinosaur tail preserved in amber
Scientists have known for a while now that many dinosaurs had feathers, and simply weren’t the shiny, leathery reptilian beasts that movies are so fond …
Scientists are one step closer to creating a real Jurassic Park
Some scientists have already created artificial intelligence capable of consistently beating humans at a game that’s too complex for ordinary computers, which has led some …
Newly discovered dinosaur rightly nicknamed the ‘fluffy feathered poodle from hell’
A recently discovered dinosaur in China that’s been nicknamed the ‘fluffy feathered poodle from hell’ would make a great new Jurassic World attraction, considering how the …
Dinosaur egg treasure trove found in Japan
Researchers have discovered fragments of fossilized dinosaur eggs in Southern Japan, according to a June 29 report in the journal Cretaceous Research. The 90 eggshell …
Mystery Solved: Why Large Dinosaurs Avoided the Tropics For Millions of Years
New research has revealed why it took more than 30 million years for large Triassic dinosaurs to populate the tropics after they first appeared on …
