Over three million years ago, a 500-plus pound marsupial roamed Australia, winning the prize of the continent’s first long-distance walking champion. In a study published May 31 in the Journal of Royal Society Open Science, a team of scientists described ...

Roughly 125 million years ago, when the world was warmer, more humid, with higher sea levels, Spinosaurs were a genus of theropod (or “beast-footed”) dinosaurs. These unusual 13 to 22 ton dinos were known for their long, crocodile-like jaws and ...

Over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus directly or indirectly killed about 15 million people worldwide, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. In the United States, more people died in 2020 and 2021 than ...

The persistent pathogen known as the plague was circulating around Europe and Asia centuries before it wiped out about 25 million people. A team of scientists have just recently found 4,000 year-old DNA belonging to Yersinia pestis, or the bacteria ...

Efficiently standing up and walking and running on two feet  stands out among the traits that separates Homo sapiens from great apes—and we can owe a lot of that to a raised medial arch. While crucial, the mechanics behind bipedal ...

As they creep through tropical environments appearing not to have a care in the world, sloths give off some of the chillest vibes in the animal kingdom. This relaxed and elusive nature does make studying sloths a bit difficult, but ...

With some species clocking in the same size as present day whales, titanosaurs were some of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth. Living from the Late Jurassic Epoch (about 163.5 million to 145 million years ago) up until ...

Deep in the stone at the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (BISP) in Nevada’s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, many 50-foot-long ichthyosaur (Shonisaurus popularis) specimens lay petrified and frozen in time. This order of extinct marine reptiles (and Nevada’s state fossil) looked like a chunky dolphin and lived during the late Triassic age, ...

When it comes to the critical process of pollination, butterflies and especially bees are typically the most lauded participants. These pollinators fly from flower to flower to feed and fertilize plants by spreading pollen around. But, these fluttery creatures are ...

What is life? It’s a fuzzy concept without a single answer. If you asked a philosopher, they might quote Plato and tell you it’s the ability to support yourself and reproduce, though that would make sterile donkeys non-living objects. Ask ...