May 2, 2016 Iguana relative shows how lizards spread worldwide An 80-million-year-old lizard discovered in southern Brazil has provided a surprising clue about how these reptiles evolved, and where they once lived, according to a new study
May 2, 2016 Fossils show how ancient seafloor gave rise to life Signs of 125-million-year-old life lurk in rocks drilled from deep under the seafloor near Spain and Portugal, new research finds
May 2, 2016 Ancient croc with 'shovel mouth' likely enjoyed clam dinners A peg-toothed crocodile relative with a mouth like a shovel lived in the prehistoric swamps of Peru about 13 million years ago, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 Hippo's 'shrunken' ancestor was hardly bigger than a sheep The first hippos may have been about the size of overgrown sheep
May 2, 2016 'Fake' fossil is actually 189 million-year-old remains of undiscovered species For 30 years, an overlooked dinosaur fossil at the Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery in Doncaster, U.K. was believed to be a plastic replica of an ichthyosaur, a prehistoric aquatic reptile. Thanks to the work of one young paleontologist, not only was the fossil found to be real, but it is 189 million-year-old remains of a previously unknown species of the ancient reptile.
May 2, 2016 New evidence: South American monkeys came from Africa The evolutionary mystery of how monkeys arrived in South America may have been solved.
May 2, 2016 Dinos got high, oldest grass fungus fossil hints Millions of years before LSD and rock and roll, dinosaurs munched on psychedelic fungus, a new study suggests.
May 2, 2016 Early edition of Magna Carta discovered in Victorian scrapbook An early edition of one of the world’s most famous documents, the Magna Carta, was unearthed in a pretty unexpected place – a scrapbook. Mark Bateson, a Kent, U.K.-based archivist, was tasked with looking for a charter from the town of Sandwich when he stumbled upon the rare find. He came across Sandwich’s Charter of the Forest in a Victorian-era scrapbook in the Kent County Council archives that just happened to also contain an edition of the groundbreaking document that dates back to 1300.
May 2, 2016 New species of long-necked ‘dragon’ dinosaur discovered in China A new species of long-necked dinosaur was discovered by Canadian paleontologists from bones discovered in central China.
May 2, 2016 Dinosaurs thriving in Europe before asteroid hit, new study shows Dinosaurs were flourishing in Europe right before their rapid demise, according to a new study. This would help confirm that dinosaurs the world over were wiped out by an asteroid’s impact 66 million years ago - a theory sometimes questioned due to lack of non-North American fossil evidence.
