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ANCIENT CRUSTACEAN DISCOVERY
This 415-million-year-old monster scorpion existed before trees, and it's the biggest everScientists have identified Praearcturus gigas, a one-meter-long scorpion from the Early Devonian period, as the largest scorpion ever disco...
Before dinosaurs, earth had a giant millipede longer than a car: and it was the largest arthropod ever foundArthropleura, a colossal arthropod from the Carboniferous and early Permian periods, has been definitively linked to millipedes through new...
How the ‘Cretaceous Kraken’ hunted 100 million years ago: Inside the deadly feeding style of the 62-foot giant octopusGiant octopus Cretaceous Kraken: Ancient giant octopuses, Nanaimoteuthis, with arms up to 19 meters, were apex predators in the Late Cretac...
Inside the Discovery of a Rare “Living Fossil” From the Age of DinosaursA remarkable fossil discovery in Inner Mongolia reveals Weichangiops squamosus, an ancient crustacean. This find, over 100 million years ol...
Scientists Find Sharks Older Than Dinosaurs Hidden in Stone for 325 Million YearsScientists have unearthed fossils of two new shark species within Mammoth Cave. These ancient creatures swam in seas that covered the regio...
Biggest bug ever? Scientists re-create head of 9-foot long, 88-legged ancient monsterScientists have unveiled the head of Arthropleura, the largest bug to ever exist, which roamed the Earth 300 million years ago. This millip...
Jurassic period marine turtle fossil uncovers by scientists. What we know so farScientists recently uncovered a 150-million-year-old fossil of Solnhofia parsonsi, a marine turtle with shorter limbs, suggesting it swam c...