But, alas, the mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. As with plesiosaurs, the biggest giveaway is its habitat: “With the exception of ...

Who would have thought there were once seas that contained species from over 80 million ... fossils and a few mystery items.. Possibly mosasaurs related!!! Stay tuned for the adventure as the ...

Life reconstruction of the Portuguese snow leopard hunting an Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica). Credit: Jiangzuo et al., 2025. A new study uncovers an unexpected member of the species’ evolutionary ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...

Paleontologists might have discovered a new dinosaur species—even though its fossil doesn’t exist anymore. Researchers in Munich, Germany, claim to have identified a new species of large ...

“CT scanning fossils is common, and really should be standard for mosasaurs coming from Morocco,” says Sharpe. Rather than a new species, Sharpe’s team suspects the fossil represents a ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

This impact triggered a chain reaction of destructive events including a rapid climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and in total about 75% of species on ...

Mosasaur fossil may be a forgery, researchers claim CT scans needed to verify authenticity of the fossil Fossil from Morocco raises concerns over scientific integrity ...

Illustration. (photo credit: Dotted Yeti. Via Shutterstock) A new study raised serious concerns about the authenticity of the mosasaur species Xenodens calminechari, originally described in 2021 ...