Several shark hunters stumbled upon a previously unknown population of coelacanths, a 420-million-year-old ‘fossil fish’ that was once thought to be extinct. The discovery was made in the southwestern part of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The remarkable find, first outlined by Mongabay News, stems from the result that the shark hunters were using gillnets … Read more
Our ancestors and those of other modern mammals were not held back by the dinosaurs, but by other early mammal lineages, a study has concluded. It was assumed that mammals lived in the shadow of the dinosaurs, who filled many ecological niches, thus keeping mammals small and generalist in lifestyle and diet. And when the … Read more
The dinosaur that grew like a TREE: Analysis of 200million-year-old South African creature’s bones reveals its growth varied season-to-season — more like a plant than a puppy or a baby human Massospondylus carinatus was a plant-eating dinosaur from the early Jurassic Experts from American Museum of Natural History studied its fossil thigh bones They counted growth … Read more
Dino-mite find! Adorable baby dinosaur’s footprint discovered in China is just 6cm long and is the smallest stegosaur print EVER found Footprint was found in the Xinjiang Province in northwestern China by experts It measures just 2.24 inches (5.7cm) long and is thought to belong to a stegosaur Expect that the animal that made it was … Read more
Large lumps of pink quartzite were transported some 600 miles across what is today the American Midwest in the bellies of long-necked dinosaurs, a study concluded. Researchers from the US explained that the giant sauropods likely swallowed the stomach stones, known as ‘gastroliths’, to help grind up food they had eaten. The gastroliths ended up being … Read more
Massive dinosaurs with ‘ridiculously long necks’ were able to take to the sky and carry large prey while flying due to spoked vertebrae, according to a new study. Pterosaurs, gigantic flying reptiles with impressive wingspans of up to 39ft, lived between 225 million years ago and 66 million years ago and had a massive neck. … Read more
US technology company Neuralink could create ‘novel exotic species’ of dinosaurs in just 15 years, according to Max Hodak, one of its co-founders. Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist who co-founded the contentious neurotechnology firm with Elon Musk. The firm, known for putting a computer chip in the brain of a pig, could ‘probably build … Read more
Crocodiles survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66million years ago due to ‘snappy evolution’ that saw the animals flourish on land AND in the oceans Experts studied over 200 skulls and jaws of crocodiles and their extinct species Some extinct crocodile groups evolved very fast over millions of year Today’s crocodiles and … Read more
A new map showing the location of a series of small tropical islands 200 million years ago in the area that is now Bristol sheds new light on how British dinosaurs lived. University of Bristol researchers examined hundreds of pieces of data including historic literature describing the region as being like the Florida Everglades. The … Read more
If you thought the ‘youths’ of today were bad, think again — for teenage T. rex and adolescent Allosaurus outcompeted smaller rival species for food, a study found. US experts found that the young of giant carnivorous dinosaurs, or megatheropods, acted as their own ecological entity in both the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. They were so … Read more