Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota, nicknamed Gus, has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction.
Paleontology
admin A chance encounter led to one of the largest T. rexes ever found. Now, it could be ‘lost to science’
A large T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Gus’ is on track to break auction records, and highlight one of paleontology’s biggest…
Fossils of an ancient sea creature are the oldest evidence of right-handedness
Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in modern animals that…
Fossil kept in drawer for decades turns out to be first ever Antarctica dinosaur bone
A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur…
The most controversial fossil site in human evolution just got even more puzzling
Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and…
A submersible ride revealed a vast whale graveyard. And it holds more than just bones
Researchers found a huge whale graveyard dating back millions of years, with fossils, modern carcasses and deep-sea scavengers, some of…
The largest scorpion to walk the Earth was the size of a baseball bat
Scientists describe a baseball bat-size scorpion — the world’s largest — and suggest that the 400 million-year-old creature was also…
Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago
A fossil found in what’s now northwestern China belonged to a microraptor, a gliding dinosaur that hunted ancient birds.
Massive marine predator crowned T. rex of the ocean and ‘a true terror of its time’
There’s a newly crowned T. rex. This one, called Tylosaurus rex, was a tyrant of the sea and mosasaur spanning…
Why did T. rex have tiny arms? A new study may finally have the answer
An analysis of 85 dinosaur species shows that tiny forearms in meat-eating dinosaurs were the result of an evolutionary trade-off.