How Bird Beaks Got Their Start As Dinosaur Snouts
Hoping to help trace the history of how velociraptors evolved into birds, researchers at Harvard and Yale may have tracked a key beak transformation to two genes.
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New Discovery Of World's Oldest Stone Tools
Researchers in Kenya uncover tools dated to 3.3 million years ago, long before the first humans, as we know them, walked the Earth.
Think Man-Sized Swimming Centipede — And Be Glad It's A Fossil
This sea monster swam Earth's seas about 480 million years ago and was the biggest creature of its day, scientists say.
Ancient Scottish Sea Reptile Not 'Nessie,' But Just As Cute
It was 15 feet long, with a snout shaped like a dolphin's. This newly identified meat-eater swam the seas near the Isle of Skye in the time of dinosaurs.
Crocodile Meets Godzilla — A Swimming Dino Bigger Than T. Rex
It roamed land and sea and snacked on giant fish. The first few spinosaurus bones were discovered a century ago, but destroyed in WWII. A more complete, second specimen reveals a terrifying predator.