Imagine what the offspring of a koala bear and an orangutan would look like. Now add into the mix a little grizzly bear and maybe a touch of ape. That’s what Nimbadon lavarackorum, a 15-million-year-old Australian marsupial, looked like. >>Read More

The spiral-shaped poop of a 270-million-year-old shark was found to contain 93 little oval objects—what the scientists determined to be tapeworm eggs, so small they measure only about the width of one-and-a-half sheets of paper. >>Read More

A new study by Charles Mitchell from the University of Buffalo’s geology department found that a tiny, long-lived, marine organism far outlived its evolutionary successors. >>Read More

A recent study has shown that those massive dinosaurs with long necks that grazed on vegetation, known as sauropods, actually had relatively tiny brains. >>Read More

A recent study in the journal Nature analyzed the bones of a 125-million-year old bird species called Confuciusornis sanctus; found that this prehistoric bird had marked differences between genders. >>Read More

Dr John Wible from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Dr Guillermo Rougier of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, with others, recently co-authored a groundbreaking study that scientists believe once and for all has settled the 120-year debate about the ancestry of the mysterious mole-like mammal Necrolestes patagonensis. >>Read More

The fossil find belongs to a species that paleontologists have named Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus, the first mosasaur species discovered to live in freshwater. >>Read More