May 2, 2016 A prehistoric murder mystery: Earth's worst mass extinctions There have been good times and bad times in world history, but none so bad as a catastrophic 80 million years of history that wiped out nearly every species on the planet.
May 2, 2016 Getting a head: 'Superduck' dinosaur shows how dino crests evolved A newly classified duck-billed dinosaur species snagged the nickname "superduck" due to its giant pelvis.
May 2, 2016 'Hobbits' were a separate species, ancient chompers show An ancient, 3-foot-tall human whose diminutive stature has earned it the nickname "hobbit" has puzzled evolutionary scientists since its little bones were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores.
May 2, 2016 Ancient super-predators could take down young mammoths Nearly a million years ago, a cave hyena could have taken down a 5-year-old mastodon weighing more than a ton.
May 2, 2016 Meet Jane, the most complete adolescent T rex ever found An adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex named Jane may settle a dispute more than 70 years in the making: Whether small carnivorous dinosaurs are younger versions of T. rex, or another species altogether, a new study finds.
May 2, 2016 Everything's bigger in Texas: Ancient supersize shark fossils unearthed A mega shark that lived 300 million years ago would have made today's great whites look like shrimps, according to fossils of the beast unearthed in Jacksboro, Texas
May 2, 2016 Humans exited Africa, and trekked to China, fossils reveal Teeth from a cave in China suggest that modern humans lived in Asia much earlier than previously thought, and tens of thousands of years before they reached Europe, researchers say
May 2, 2016 Baby duck-billed dinos unearthed in 'Dragon's Tomb' nest A cluster of baby duck-billed dinosaurs — hadrosaurs like the adorable character Ducky in the 1988 animated film "The Land Before Time" — was uncovered in a slab of rock from a fossil-rich part of Mongolia known as "Dragon's Tomb." Scientists examining a roughly 1-foot-long piece of rock from the Dragon's Tomb site, which is located in the Gobi Desert, discovered at least three new baby Saurolophus angustirostris fossils
May 2, 2016 Extinct hippolike creature was prehistoric vacuum cleaner About 23 million years ago, an ancient hippo-size mammal used its long snout like a vacuum cleaner, suctioning up food from the heavily vegetated shoreline whenever it was hungry, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 Fossil could settle the debate over whether early birds really did fly We know some dinosaurs had feathers but there remains plenty of debate over whether prehistoric birds such as Archaeopteryx could actually take to the air and fly.
