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…
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…
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An international team of researchers led by LMU paleontologist Bettina Reichenbacher has managed to classify fossils of one of the most species-rich fish groups into a family tree for the first time. Materials provided by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Note: Content may…
Read Time: 8 minutes This Halloween, you can skip the ghostly sheet. Every human already carries a ghost, several of them, in fact, stitched into the long strands of DNA we inherited from our parents. It was passed down from long-dead…
Due to the fragility of prehistoric footprints in front of the artwork, the researchers set up a portable spectrometer on a protective walkway around 8 feet (2.5 meters) away from the cave wall. A beam of UV light was shone on the…
Zoey, daughter of the Calvert Marine Museum's Curator of Paleontology Stephen Godfrey, peeks around the serrated cutting edges of this large megalodon tooth found along Calvert Cliffs. She helped designate the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon as Maryland’s state shark.
Prehistoric life beyond the dinosaurs: mammoths, megalodon and ancient sea monsters, pterosaurs, early mammals and fossils found by amateurs.
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