The difficult task of measuring dinosaur intelligence
The study of intelligence is an extremely difficult task, even in animals living today. In part, this is because much of the scientific jury is still out on what intelligence…
Scientists have found footprints older than dinosaurs
A substrate composed of microbes may have preserved a series of 255-million-year-old burrows made in a sandy South African tidal flat by a clumsy amphibian, says a new study. The…
This is what dinosaurs really looked like
If you encounter a velociraptor, you won’t encounter the tall, sleek, lizard-like beast from the hit Jurassic Park franchise. Instead, you’ll probably stand up against a much smaller, feathered and…
Did a swimming lizard predate the dinosaurs?
About 250 million years ago, ocean water covered what is now called Flowerdalen (“Valley of Flowers”) in modern Norway. Life in these waters was different from what it was just…