Meet the 2-billion-year-old giant that stretches 14km long, towers nearly 3km into the sky, and hides a hairy carnivoreMount Roraima, a flat-topped mountain on the Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana border, is an ancient and otherworldly place. Its isolation has ...
20 May, 2026, 01.25 PM IST
Scientists just dug up a 20-meter dinosaur in Argentina that's rewriting Jurassic historyA remarkable dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in Argentina. Named Bicharracosaurus dionidei, this creature lived around 155 million years...
13 May, 2026, 11.07 PM IST
This dinosaur had a neck 40% shorter than its giant relatives, defying one of nature's biggest Jurassic rulesPaleontologists discovered Brachytrachelopan mesai, a sauropod dinosaur with a surprisingly short neck. This creature challenged the long-h...
13 May, 2026, 06.12 PM IST
Scientists stunned after 330-million-year-old shark teeth emerge from Ireland's ancient limestoneWildlife officers in Ireland unearthed 330-million-year-old fossilized shark teeth, predating dinosaurs. These Psephodus magnus teeth, foun...
13 May, 2026, 03.11 PM IST
Giant new dinosaur species unearthed in Brazil after 120 million yearsConstruction workers in Davinopolis, Brazil, discovered the fossilized bones of a giant dinosaur. Named Dasosaurus tocantinensis, the creat...
12 May, 2026, 06.43 PM IST
The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”New research uses artificial intelligence to analyze ancient footprints. This study suggests bird-like relatives may have existed millions ...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.38 AM IST
Scientists Found a 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil With Wings Spread… What It Revealed Was UnexpectedA remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil offers fresh clues about early bird flight. This ancient creature, a link between dinosaurs and birds, sh...
17 Mar, 2026, 11.31 AM IST
Real-life Jurassic Park? Ancient rhino proteins found — dino discoveries may be comingScientists have extracted 24-million-year-old protein sequences from a rhino tooth discovered in the Canadian Arctic, surpassing the age li...
17 Jul, 2025, 01.53 AM IST
Scientists may have solved the mystery of dinosaurs' originsA recent study in Current Biology suggests dinosaurs originated in Gondwana's low-latitude regions, rather than mid-latitudes of South Amer...
31 Jan, 2025, 07.24 PM IST
The first dinosaur was named 200 years ago. We know so much more nowBuckland recognized that these fossils belonged to a huge bygone reptile, and gave it a formal scientific name: Megalosaurus, meaning "grea...
13 Feb, 2024, 04.41 PM IST
Fossils of 130-yr-million male mosquitoes found in LebanonThe two fossilized mosquitoes, both representing the same extinct species, are similar in size and appearance to modern mosquitoes, though ...
06 Dec, 2023, 08.00 PM IST
This giant fish still around from dinosaur era can live for 100 yearsCoelacanths, which have been around for 400 million years, were thought extinct until they were found alive in 1938 off South Africa.
18 Jun, 2021, 03.47 PM IST
New dinosaur species wore its 'heart' on tailScientists have discovered a new dinosaur species in Tanzania with a heart-shaped tail that provides new clues to how ecosystems evolved on...
14 Feb, 2019, 06.28 PM IST
- How did bird-like meat-eating dinosaurs lost their fingers?
Johannesburg, Aug 24 (IANS) An international team of paleontologists have found how a meat-eating species of dinosaurs, that share many sim...
24 Aug, 2018, 06.27 PM IST
- New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaurs found26 Aug, 2017, 04.54 PM IST
3D models show how giant dinosaurs evolvedScientists have developed 3D computer models of the bodies of the gigantic sauropod dinosaurs to analyse how their size, shape and weight-d...
30 Mar, 2016, 02.49 PM IST
The world's oldest flowering plant may be 130-million-year-oldScientists have identified a 125 mn- to 130 mn-year-old freshwater plant, a contemporary of dinosaurs, as one of earliest flowering plants ...
18 Aug, 2015, 06.39 PM IST