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T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant

Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures. For most of the last century, T. rex […]

“The advent of fecal pellets,” wrote Kimming and Bicknell, “provided an additional source of organic carbon, as well as iron, […]

Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans […]

On top of that, when analyzing the beaks, the team noticed a distinct pattern. The wear wasn’t uniform. The right […]

The fossils, such as this oddity, consist of carbon-rich material in very old sediment deposits. Credit: Gaorong Li & Xiaodong […]

Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage. Alvarezsaurids were mostly small-bodied […]

But there was one thing that made S. mirabilis different from S. aegyptiacus. The word “mirabilis” in the newly discovered […]

Skip to content Like rocks, egg shells can trap isotopes, allowing us to use them to date samples. When dinosaur […]

Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. Today, the North Pacific right whale is severely endangered, meaning that […]