On a wind-swept stretch of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, a tiny jaw just 16.5 millimeters long has opened a surprisingly large window into deep time. The fossil, pulled from Durlston Bay near Swanage, belongs to a brand-new species of early mammal that carried razor-like teeth and a toolkit built for survival alongside dinosaurs. In a hypothetical ...
Every rule of flight has an exception, and nature seems to collect them like trophies. For more than a century, scientists have puzzled over animals that look ill-suited for the sky, only to find they rode the wind with ease. Today, new imaging, biomechanics, and aerodynamics are rewriting what we thought was possible, revealing clever ...
Picture this: an ocean predator so immense that it made even the great white shark look small and unthreatening—a beast whose jaws could crush a car in a single snap. This isn’t science fiction or a sea monster myth; it’s the story of Megalodon, the colossal shark that once ruled our planet’s seas. Its bite ...
Picture this: millions of years ago, creatures roamed Earth that we’ve only seen as fossils in museums. Their DNA has been locked away in ice, amber, and ancient bones for millennia. But what if I told you that scientists have actually managed to bring some of these long-lost species back to life? It sounds like ...
