Archeology
Largest creature on Earth discovered
Researchers estimate that the creature was about 20m long and weighed up to 340 tonnes, a mass that exceeds any other known animal on Earth.
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New technology
'Resurrecting' ancient creatures into robots
Researchers hope to be able to recreate the entire bodies of ancient creatures thanks to a new field: paleontology-inspired robotics.
Archeology
Fossils over 247 million years old reveal new ichthyosaur species
Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of a previously uncharacterized ichthyosaur in the Guangxi Autonomous Region.
Archeology
The oldest species of 'vampire squid' is named after US President Joe Biden
Analysis of 328 million-year-old fossils from the US reveals a previously unknown species of vampire squid with up to 10 tentacles.
Technology
Grow ancient creatures from scientifically accurate augmented reality
Paleontologists from La Brea Tar Pits are currently developing a scientifically accurate herd of extinct animals for use in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (V…
Archeology
Dunkleosteus: The 'Terminator' of the Devonian
Before the dinosaurs appeared, the Earth also existed many species of animals known as the notorious assassins, many of which are from the ocean and Dunkleosteus is one…
Archeology
Discovered 'monster' dinosaur head, phoenix tail
An ancient creature with a dinosaur-like head and body, wide wings, raven feathers and a phoenix-like long tail that once fluttered our continent.
Discover science
Most creatures on Earth disappeared 2 billion years ago
Experts analyze rock samples in Hudson Bay and find that the number of organisms on Earth has dropped sharply due to the change in oxygen.
Archeology
The strange ancient species can fly right from birth?
Nearly 200 million years ago, the Earth's sky was a creature's house unlike anything seen today, once it was born it could fly.
Discover science
Russia: Finding diamonds, discovering
This is a new dinosaur or a wolf weasel, scientists are still debating the newly discovered fossil in Russia.
Discover science
Monsters half-beasts are fake
Zhou Guoxing (Chau Quoc Hung), a paleontologist with many years of research on 'The Snowman' affirmed, does not have any half-beasts ...
Oceanography
Rare image of shark species that lived for 5 centuries
Researcher Brynn Devine and Laura Wheeland suddenly saw the Greenland shark emerge from the deep mud and stared at the decoy camera lens on the seabed off Nunavut.
Archeology
185 million year fossils of ancient organisms have 38 children
Scientists discovered fossils of an extinct creature with her cubs 185 million years ago.
Archeology
The reasons for extinction of animals are more difficult than we imagined
We often see in sci-fi movies, scientists easily revive animals that once extinct millions of years ago with only one drop of fossil remains.
Archeology
The ancient 'Loch Ness' monster swims like a penguin
The mystery of the swimming style of the dragon (Plesiosaur), an ancient creature with a unique body, was decoded by scientists after nearly two centuries of controversy.