February 15, 2018
Growing up saber-toothed: Strong from the start
During the Pleistocene, saber-toothed cats were formidable predators, with their massive canines and powerful front legs sporting razor-sharp …
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April 19, 2017
Did the first humans arrive in North America a lot earlier?
New dating of artifacts recovered from a site in the northern Yukon, on the Alaskan border, may push back the hypothesized entry date of the …
November 30, 2016
Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I
One hundred years ago this month, a Canadian cargo ship — the SS Mount Temple — departed the port of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River headed …
February 8, 2016
Mammoths may have suffered from bone disease
The demise of mammoths, which went extinct by the end of the Pleistocene about 12,000 years ago, is thought to have been brought about by a …
September 21, 2015
Sauropod skull mystery
It is rare for sauropod skeletons to be found with the skull also preserved; it was only recently that the first complete North American …
September 2, 2015
Gender equity in dino bones
Modern birds like cardinals and peacocks offer some of the most dramatic examples of sexual dimorphism on Earth, with males and females varying …
April 20, 2015
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
The first primates evolved shortly after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. But whether these small mammals lived …
February 2, 2015
One-of-a-kind dinosaur skull goes digital
Some dinosaur species are only known from a single skull, and gaining access to study such rare and fragile fossils can be difficult, especially …