To get you in the Halloween spirit for the creepy, ghoulish and grotesque, we present to you animals with some of the most spooky-sounding names: goblin sharks, ghost crabs and vampire bats. Learn how these creatures got their spine-chilling names.
Kurt Walde, a mountain guide from Bruneck in South Tyrol, discovered a cave below the Conturines peak in the Dolomites on July 3, 2026. It holds a very large number of fossil cave bear skeletons, many of them nearly complete. The cave…
The Jackson School of Geosciences is home to the seventh-largest collection of fossils in the country. From winged dinosaurs to saber-toothed cats, the repository has some spooky offerings. In the dim light of the basement beneath the Texas Vertebrate Paleontology…
A dinosaur unearthed in an English clay quarry 25 years ago has been identified as an entirely new genus and species, scientists said. Named Paludohadros proudlovii, the plant-eating dinosaur lived about 125 million years ago, when wetlands covered much of southern England.
DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Denver Museum of Nature and Science says its scientists have helped discover the first-ever trackway made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex. According to the museum, the trackway is around 23 feet long and has four three-toed footprints.
DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is officially welcoming some rare footprints found by a museum associate in North Dakota. The museum says the first reported adult T. rex trackway officially arrived on Thursday after they were…
Submission: 7 July 2026. Acceptance: 21 September 2026. Methods. All the materials described here were collected in successive paleontological field works (2014, 2015, 2019, 2023, 2025). The fossils were mechanically prepared at the Museo Municipal “Argentino Urquiza”, Rincón de los Sauces. The specimens were measured using a digital calliper…
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of megaraptorid dinosaur from an incomplete skeleton unearthed in northern Patagonia, Argentina. Life reconstruction of Rinconraptor pipoae. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge / CC BY 4.0. The newly described species belongs to the Megaraptoridae, a…
Learn how muskoxen survive Arctic winters, why they carry so little genetic variety, and what researchers have traced to their mysterious die-offs. Over about six weeks in the summer of 2021, a documentary film crew on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian…
On the last day of an ecology field trip, Brooklyn Rolph ’28 spotted a stone spear point estimated at 3,000 to 4,500 years old, now in the possession of the state. Brooklyn Rolph ’28 had a few minutes to explore the island. She spent…
Dinosaurs, fossils and the deep past: new species, T. rex, mammoths, sea monsters, pterosaurs and the fossils that sell for millions.
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