Brain
Just how brainy was a T. rex?
A debate rages over how to count brain cells in dinosaurs. At issue: figuring out how these extinct animals’ likely behaved.
By Freda Kreier
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A debate rages over how to count brain cells in dinosaurs. At issue: figuring out how these extinct animals’ likely behaved.
The extinct megalodon (Otodus megalodon) was the largest shark to ever prowl the oceans.
Microscopic fossils from Australia suggest that some bacteria evolved structures for oxygen-producing photosynthesis by 1.78 billion years ago.
Images made with these particles have revealed details of dinosaur bones, mummies and more.
This field of science looks to understand life — past and present — by studying how organisms altered their surroundings.
Called Perucetus colossus, it may have tipped the scales at up to 340 metric tons — more than today’s blue whales.
The latest clues from fossils hint at where these flying reptiles came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.
Scientists are rethinking how this extinct creature used the spiky limbs sticking out of its face to hunt.
O. megalodon sharks were warm-blooded mega-predators. But when food sources dwindled, colder-blooded sharks may have had an evolutionary edge.
Dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus have long been portrayed with their big teeth bared. But new research suggests this wasn’t so.