October 21, 2015 Hunchback King Richard III infected with foot-long parasitic worms, scientists say Researchers who dug up Richard III's skeleton underneath a parking lot in Leicester last year now report they discovered numerous roundworm eggs in the soil around his pelvis, where his intestines would have been.
October 21, 2015 Scientists decode DNA of 'living fossil' fish Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, giving them new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.
October 21, 2015 Hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils found Researchers in northeastern Spain say they've uncovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including four kinds that had never been found before in the region.
October 21, 2015 Ancient superpredator ate sharks for lunch Present-day Erie was under a saltwater ocean 364 million years ago. And a top-of-the-food-chain predator in that ancient ocean ate sharks for lunch. And for breakfast and dinner, too.
October 21, 2015 Ancient beaver–like mammal survived comet that killed the dinosaurs While Sunday saw the 58th anniversary of “Leave It To Beaver’s” first episode premiere, Monday there’s another “beav” in the news – one whose debut beat the Cleavers by about 166 million years. According to a new study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, an ancient fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of beaver–like mammal has been discovered in northwestern New Mexico.
October 21, 2015 Fossilized turtle believed to have lived tens of millions of years ago excavated in New Mexico Fossilized remains of a turtle believed to have lived in a swampy environment tens of millions of years ago were recovered from a desert location in southern New Mexico.
October 21, 2015 Dino-killing impact remade plant kingdom, too The killer meteorite that extinguished the dinosaurs also torched North America's forests and plants.
October 21, 2015 World's largest flying bird was like nothing alive today The largest flying bird known to ever have lived has now been revealed, an extinct giant with a wingspan more than twice the size of the largest living flying bird, researchers say
October 21, 2015 Bachelor party stumbles upon rare mastodon skull Elephant Butte Lake State Park in New Mexico is named for an elephant-shaped hill on the north side of the park, but now the name seems even more appropriate after a bachelor party hiking there discovered a 3-million-year-old stegomastodon skull the prehistoric ancestor of mammoths and elephants
October 21, 2015 'Mother lode' of fossils discovered in Canada A treasure trove of fossils chiseled out of a canyon in Canada's Kootenay National Park rivals the famous Burgess Shale, the best record of early life on Earth, scientists say
