A new species of a giant, plant-eating dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province, and described by a team of international researchers in Current Biology. Ledumahadi mafube, which means “a giant thunderclap at dawn,” in the South African language Sesotho, walked in an unusual way. It did not walk on straight limbs,
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Officials in Canada recently announced that gold miners in Yukon territory unearthed a mummified wolf pup and caribou calf, both…
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the…
It seems to have lived in the desert and died more than 200 million years ago. It’s a new giant…
Researchers in the United States have found the fossil remains of an unknown dinosaur species in the state of Utah. The apparent newfound dinosaur has been given the name “Akainacephalus johnsoni” (“Johnson’s thorny head”). It lived approximately 76 million years ago and was 13-16 feet (4-5 m) long and 3.5 feet (1-1.5 m) tall at
It was 177 centimeters tall and probably weighed around 100 kilos. A fossil discovery of an extinct giant penguin shows…
More than 200 fossilized and largely intact pterosaur eggs have been discovered in China—an extraordinary find given that only…
Exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur feathers are prompting scientists to reconsider how some dinosaurs truly looked—and raising the possibility that certain species…
Russian scientists have revealed a perfectly preserved cave lion cub that lived between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago near the Tirekhtykh River in Siberia. The cub was discovered on the bank of the Tirekhtykh River by a local resident, according to The Siberian Times. The cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea) once roamed vast areas stretching