Oceanography
I know why my eyes are as big as a basketball
Giant squid living in the dark bottom of the ocean can still detect the smallest light created by whales up to 120m away.
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Oceanography
The smallest dolphin on the edge of extinction
Scientists have once again voiced the fact that Maui dolphins, the smallest and rarest among dolphins, are facing extinction. Their only habitat is on New Zealand's west…
Oceanography
Discover the world's smallest whale population
Scientists have discovered the smallest known whale population in the world that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
Oceanography
The world's smallest whale shark
Philippine environmentalists have just saved a whale shark the size of a wrist.
Archeology
Discover the smallest dinosaur footprint ever
The 110-million-year-old fossil was identified as belonging to a small dinosaur bird that could easily be held in hand.
Archeology
Discovering the world's smallest gibbon fossils lived 12.5 million years ago
Weighing only about 3.5kg, the new gibbon fossils discovered in Tugen Hills, Kenya were identified by scientists dating back 12.5 million years ago.
Archeology
Detecting small birds like grasshoppers living with dinosaurs
Scientists have discovered a bird of small size like grasshoppers that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, the largest animal that ever existed on Earth.
Archeology
Mummy of 5-month-old fetus in tiny coffin
A 5-month-old fetal mummy in a British museum may be the youngest mummy recorded in the world.
Archeology
The dinosaur fossil is about the size of a chicken
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Geosciences have published fossil discoveries of the world's smallest viewed dinosaur.
Archeology
Fossil animal world's smallest footprint
Scientists have discovered the smallest fossil footprint of animals in Canada. This fossil is believed to be of a salamander-like animal that lived 315 million years ago.
Archeology
Find the smallest mammoth
Researchers on May 9 said they have discovered the existence of the smallest mammoth on the island of Crete millions of years ago. This adult species is about the size o…
Archeology
Find the smallest fossil on the planet
Scientists at the University of Manchester, England have found fossils of a 50 million-year-old parasite that lives on a spider's body. It is considered the smallest fos…
Archeology
Discover the smallest animal dinosaurs
Scientists at the University of Portsmouth, UK have announced the excavation of the world's new, smallest carnivorous dinosaur in Cretaceous Research, a prestigious maga…
Archeology
The smallest dinosaur in North America
Archaeologists have said that the Fruitadens haagarorum is on display at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, California ...
Archeology
'Tiny' dinosaur fossils
A group of scientists from London, Cambridge and Chicago recognized and described one of the smallest dinosaur skulls ever discovered.