The North Carolina Museum of Natural History will be putting a pair of “Dueling Dinosaurs” on display in 2022. The two creatures — a Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops — appear to have killed each other prior to their fossilization. It’s an incredibly rare discovery, and the T. rex fossil may be the only complete specimen …
Mating flies frozen in time were found encased in amber for the past 41 million years. The flies, still locked in their mating pose, were swallowed up by tree sap which then hardened into protective amber that preserved them and made it possible for paleontologists to study them. The flies are just part of a …
Oldest-ever modern bird fossil found in Europe has been nicknamed the “Wonderchicken” due to its similarities between present-day chickens and ducks. It’s believed that the species roamed the region as far back as one million years before the asteroid strike that triggered the death of most dinosaur species. The fossil is helping scientists paint a …
A day on Earth was just 23.5 hours long, 70 million years ago. Researchers discovered this by studying the growth rings of ancient mollusk fossils. The findings could tell us more about or planet and its relationship with the Moon. Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories. A full day on Earth hasn’t always been 24 …
Finding dinosaur footprints can be exciting for any scientist. Finding them in a unique place just adds to the fun, but when a set of fossilized footprints was spotted on the ceiling of a cave in Australia, it sparked a decades-long mystery that was only just recently solved. As HeritageDaily reports, the fossilized footprints were …
As Earth began to slowly emerge from the last ice age, many of the creatures who had adapted to life on a frigid planet found it hard to survive. Woolly mammoths were one of the casualties of a warming Earth, and it’s believed that they were wiped from the planet around 4,000 years ago. Now, …
The mighty Tyrannosaurus rex was the ultimate food processor. It didn’t really mess around with tearing meat from bone in the way that smaller predators and scavengers of the day may have. Instead, it used its incredibly powerful jaws to crush absolutely everything, including bone, and wasn’t squeamish about swallowing it all. But if that …
If you were to travel back in time to an age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, you’d have plenty of things to fear. Dinosaurs that ruled the land were often massive, and the oceans were dominated by creatures just as fearsome. The skies had their own fair share of impressive beasts, and newly-discovered fossils are …
When you look at a fossilized skull from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex there are a few things you’ll immediately notice. For starters, it’s huge compared to the rest of its body, with almost cartoonish proportions. It’s also packed with massive, dagger-like teeth that could crush just about anything and, wait, what are those big holes …
Cave bears no longer exist. They went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, and all we have left of the massive ancient creatures are fossils. Figuring exactly why they disappeared has proven to be a significant challenge for researchers, with some believing that a changing climate ultimately doomed the species. Now, a new study …
