Sharp-toothed carnivores, three-toed crocodiles, and large plant eaters are among the dinos that left newly identified tracks in an area popular with recreational all-terrain-vehicle riders.
South American river dolphins are doing pretty well compared to some river dolphins in Asia. But boat traffic, fishing, and logging are still a threat.
Farmers recently attacked police who were looking to seize dinosaur bones, setting up the first court test of a fossil-trade ban targeting "peasant paleontologists."
Mineral analysis of a distinctive group of jade artifacts suggests that Southeast Asia boasted one of the largest marine trading networks of prehistoric
times.
Lawn mower to the ferns of Africa, the 500-toothed Nigersaurus was unlike any other. A reconstruction goes on display today at National Geographic in Washington.
As the Maya elite class grew larger—and less secure—its burgeoning demand for animals of symbolic value may have caused a drop in large mammal populations.
Nigersaurus—an elephant-size dinosaur with a featherweight skull and a mouth that worked like a lawn mower—suggests that long-necked plant-eaters browsed like cows.
A ten-million-year-old fossil jawbone helps refute the theory that the apes that gave rise to humans left Africa for Europe and Asia, only to return much later.
Popeye may have had it right: "I yam what I yam." Chimps dig up tubers using tools, scientists have found—which may help explain how we became what we are.
Early beer makers discovered how to make a chocolate drink from cacao seedpods 3,000 years ago—about 500 years earlier than the beverage was known to exist, a new study says.
