Although they start out looking like chickens and mice, baby turtles go through a unique folding process inside their eggs that forms their upper shells, a new study shows.
In addition to body armor never before found on a crocodile species, the ancient reptile had jaws that allowed it to chew like a mammal, paleontologists say.
Fossils of a ferocious predator and two giant plant-eaters, named for an Aussie poet and his creations, have been unearthed in the outback, paleontologists say.
A stunningly preserved dinosaur has skin like that of modern birds and crocodiles, a paleontologist says. "This is the closest you're going to get to patting the animal."
The one-acre human-made cave in the Jordan Valley, thought to have begun as a quarry, may later have been converted for other uses, including a monastery or a hideout for persecuted Christians.
Three times longer than today's piranha--and with more teeth to boot--eight-million-year-old Megapiranha solves an evolutionary mystery, a new study says.
The 2,000-year-old, human-made cave—the largest in Israel—is etched with crosses and may have served as a Christian refuge, monastery, and quarry, experts say.
A newfound vulture-bone flute is likely the world's oldest recognizable musical instrument, a new study says. The 40,000-year-old flute may add to evidence that music helped do in the Neanderthals.
From wayward nuns to convicted witches, the global custom of burying people "prone" was likely used to disrespect or humiliate the dead, according to the first study of its kind.
It may not have had a trunk or Dumbo ears, but the 60-million-year-old elephant ancestor with proto-tusks looms large in mammalian history, a new study says.
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