To borrow a quote from Sisqó – these prehistoric crocs received “dumps like a truck.” Paleontologists are discovering new details about an ancient reptile that described the size of a city bus – growing up to 33 feet long – and has teeth “the size of bananas.” Species of the …
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(News) A dinosaur that hobbled about 76 million years ago has been definitively diagnosed – with cancer, reports New Atlas. Researchers in Canada saw a large growth in a Centrosaurus apertus leg bone and ran it through a battery of tests, made CT scans, constructed a cross-section and cut it …
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From the depths of time, from the Hell Creek Formation, the last of the hook-handed dinosaurs emerged: Captain Hook … from the Prairie. This fearsome creature had a snout full of teeth and large, viciously hooked claws. But each claw sat at the end of the most ridiculously short, stubby …
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We know that a monstrous asteroid impact killed the (non-avian) dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. Sixty-six million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide space rock crashed into Earth just off the coast of present-day Yucatan, destroying a 150-kilometer-wide crater and unleashing a chain of catastrophic weather events that destroyed …
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On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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