Malawi – Fisheries officials marked a significant milestone this week by declaring an end to the smuggling of invasive redclaw crayfish across its borders from Zambia. Nearly a year after authorities seized a quarter-ton of the live crustaceans, enhanced surveillance has prevented further incursions. The success underscores the nation’s commitment to protecting its fragile aquatic ...
Researchers have issued a stark warning for one of the world’s most iconic big cats. Jaguars in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest face local extinction not just from habitat loss, but primarily from the severe depletion of their prey base. A new study combined extensive camera-trap data with known feeding habits to reveal how scarce deer, peccaries, ...
Paris – French authorities handed over a rare 70-million-year-old Tarbosaurus bataar skeleton to Mongolia during a ceremony on December 8, 2025, marking the end of a prolonged fight against fossil smuggling. The specimen, looted from the Gobi Desert nearly a decade earlier, returned alongside roughly 30 other paleontological treasures, including dinosaur eggs. This repatriation underscores ...
Researchers constructed a life-size dinosaur nest to unravel how oviraptor parents warmed their eggs around 70 million years ago. The innovative experiment combined physical models and heat sensors to test ancient incubation strategies. Results exposed a hybrid approach that relied on both parental body heat and sunlight, reshaping views on dinosaur reproduction. Fossil Clues Spark ...
Picture a dragonfly. Now make it the size of a hawk. Give it a two-and-a-half-foot wingspan, compound eyes the size of golf balls, and razor-sharp mandibles capable of snatching prey right out of the air. Then add a millipede longer than a car crawling across the forest floor below. This wasn’t a nightmare. This was ...
There’s something almost magical about pulling a fragment of ancient bone from the earth and realizing, slowly, that you’re holding a window into a world that vanished tens of millions of years ago. Paleontology is not the quiet, dusty academic exercise many people imagine. It’s a science fueled by rivalry, luck, sheer stubbornness, and occasionally, ...
Somewhere beneath the freezing ice of Antarctica, beneath the seafloor of the North Sea, and locked inside the molecular architecture of ancient fossils, entire worlds are hiding. Worlds that thrived millions of years before humanity arrived, teeming with life, colour, and complexity we are only now beginning to grasp. The idea that Earth still holds ...
Somewhere between the distant past and the world you walk through today, the ground beneath your feet holds secrets that stretch back hundreds of millions of years. Stone, sediment, and ancient rock layers carry the story of a world so dramatically different from ours that it might as well have been another planet. A world ...
Picture a creature so strange, so utterly unlike anything you’d expect a dinosaur to be, that when scientists first described it, they struggled to make sense of what they were even looking at. Long crocodile-like jaws. A massive sail rising from its spine. Short hind limbs. Dense bones. A paddle-shaped tail. You wouldn’t be alone ...
Most people think the story of life on Earth begins with dinosaurs. You picture massive, thundering creatures ruling entire continents, and honestly, it’s a compelling image. The thing is, those famous reptiles were practically newcomers on this planet. Long before the first dinosaur took its inaugural steps, life had already been through extraordinary transformations – ...
