Mar 27, 2020 by News Staff

A new species of dromaeosaurid dinosaur being named Dineobellator notohesperus has been discovered by a team of U.S. paleontologists. Dineobellator notohesperus....

Mar 4, 2020 by News Staff

A new species of extinct quail-like bird has been identified from a fossil found in eastern Utah. Reconstruction of Uintan paraortygid. Image credit: Thomas...

Mar 3, 2020 by News Staff

In the 1980s, paleontologists found a dinosaur nesting ground with dozens of nestlings in northern Montana and identified them as Hypacrosaurus stebingeri,...

Feb 26, 2020 by News Staff

According to a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, adults do not need tetanus or diphtheria boosters if they’ve already completed...

Feb 11, 2020 by News Staff

Despite claims that owning a gun makes a person feel safer and sleep easier, gun owners don’t sleep any better than people who do not own guns, they...

Feb 5, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of marine reptile from the Triassic period has been identified from fossils found in southeastern Alaska, the United States. An artist’s...

Jan 29, 2020 by News Staff

Bumblebee declines have been attributed to a handful of factors, including lack of flowers. Not all flowers are used equally by bumblebees, and determining...

Jan 27, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of carnivorous theropod dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in the 1990s in northeastern Utah and Wyoming, the...

Jan 20, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The exceptionally preserved fossils of the oldest species of scorpion ever found have been unearthed in Wisconsin, the United States. Reconstruction of...

Jan 16, 2020 by News Staff

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that men born in the United States in the early 19th century had temperatures 0.59...

Jan 14, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the University of Missouri have discovered the well-preserved digestive tracts in the fossils of microscopic animals called cloudinomorphs....

Jan 13, 2020 by News Staff

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers examined the feelings evoked by 2,168...

Jan 7, 2020 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey has mapped a rare earth element-bearning deposit in the Mountain Pass region of the eastern Mojave...

Dec 19, 2019 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed the extensive root system of 386-million-year-old (Devonian period) primitive trees in a sandstone quarry near Cairo, New...

Dec 5, 2019 by News Staff

New research suggests that during the Late Cretaceous epoch to the Early Paleogene epoch (80-50 million years ago), much of the southwestern United States...

Dec 3, 2019 by News Staff

Six new species of dragonflies that lived about 50 million years ago (early Eocene epoch) have been identified from fossils found in the Okanagan Highlands,...

Nov 14, 2019 by News Staff

Dr. John Longino, an ant expert in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah, has discovered a new ant species in an urban yard in Salt Lake...

Nov 13, 2019 by News Staff

‘Ghost’ fossilized footprints of human, mammoths, giant sloths and other Pleistocene creatures discovered at the White Sands National Monument in New...

Oct 31, 2019 by News Staff

Footprints of duck-billed dinosaurs, armored dinosaurs and a tyrannosaur discovered in Aniakchak National Monument, southwestern Alaska, shed new light...

Oct 22, 2019 by News Staff

Energetic storms generate strong ocean waves, which can interact with shallow seafloor features located near the edge of continental shelves known as ocean...