New Mexico – A massive shinbone pulled from the desert decades ago points to a gigantic tyrannosaur that roamed the region 74 million years ago, offering fresh clues to the roots of Tyrannosaurus rex. A Forgotten Fossil Resurfaces A Forgotten Fossil Resurfaces (Image Credits: Unsplash) University of New Mexico students unearthed the tibia in the ...
Brazil – Paleontologists announced a new species of enormous sauropod dinosaur whose Brazilian fossils closely match one from Spain, confirming land pathways linked the continents roughly 120 million years ago. A Titan Emerges from Roadworks A Titan Emerges from Roadworks (Image Credits: Wikimedia) Workers at a construction site near Davinópolis in northeastern Maranhão state uncovered ...
Orange, California — Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner, celebrated for his technical advisory role on the Jurassic Park film series, has separated from Chapman University following the release of emails linking him to Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch. A Paleontology Legend’s Hollywood Connection A Paleontology Legend’s Hollywood Connection (Image Credits: Getty Images) Jack Horner built a ...
A growing body of work posits that the ability to predict lies at the core of intelligence across all living systems and emerging artificial ones. Decades of Narrow Assumptions Shattered Decades of Narrow Assumptions Shattered (Image Credits: Unsplash) Scientists long viewed true intelligence as dependent on specialized internal structures, such as explicit reasoning engines or ...
Arvorezinha, Rio Grande do Sul — A thumb-sized amphibian clings to survival in a narrow riverside forest fragment, showcasing resilience against formidable odds. A Microendemic Marvel Emerges A Microendemic Marvel Emerges (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) The admirable red-bellied toad, or Melanophryniscus admirabilis, inhabits less than 700 meters of rocky terrain along the Forqueta River. Researchers first ...
Picture a world with no grass. No flowers. No fruit trees lining any horizon. Just towering conifers, waist-high ferns, dense cycads, and ancient horsetails stretching as far as the eye could see. That was Earth during much of the Mesozoic Era – and it was in this raw, primitive landscape that some of the most ...
Wildlife conservationists worldwide confront a mounting mental health crisis as they battle accelerating biodiversity loss and systemic workplace strains. Nearly One in Four Faces Severe Distress Nearly One in Four Faces Severe Distress (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) A 2023 study published in Conservation Biology surveyed over 2,000 professionals and revealed that 27.8% experienced moderate to severe ...
Few mysteries in natural history captivate the imagination quite like the fate of dinosaur eggs. Billions of these creatures once ruled the Earth, laid eggs in vast nesting colonies, and yet something went horribly, irrevocably wrong. What happened to those eggs? What silenced the hatchlings? The answers are far stranger and more debated than most ...
Kenya – Lions in the Maasai Mara conservancies increasingly avoided patches of rangeland grazed by Maasai cattle, even when no livestock remained present, according to researchers who analyzed nearly a decade of field data. Lions’ Lingering Caution Lions’ Lingering Caution (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Africa’s apex predators typically instill terror in prey across the savanna. Researchers ...
Think about the Diplodocus for a moment. A creature so impossibly large, so unhurried, and yet so entirely unbothered by the chaos unfolding around it. This large and graceful dinosaur lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago, following the typical sauropod form with a sweeping long neck and ...
