That’s why sharks are important for the ecosystem

A research group has emphasised the crucial ecological importance of sharks in the Anthropocene – [...]

Palaeontology: Could the T. rex have weighed 15 tonnes?

The largest T. rex found may not be the largest that ever existed. ‘Some isolated [...]

Palaeontology: Discovery in the USA – did dinosaurs live underground?

From small gliders to large herbivores – dinosaurs had extremely different lifestyles. However, these fascinating [...]

Luca: First ancestor of all living beings could have existed 4.2 billion years ago

Today’s living creatures have many things in common, including the use of the same genetic [...]

Lokiceratops rangiformis: Fossils show the diversity of the dinosaur world

A skull almost two metres long with four impressive horns: the newly described dinosaur Lokiceratops [...]

Oregon, USA: Rare moonfish discovered on the beach

In 2012, Baltic Sea fishermen caught a moonfish off the coast of Rügen. It was [...]

Palaeontology: Children in the USA discover bones of young Tyrannosaurus

Brothers Liam and Jessin, then aged seven and ten, and their nine-year-old cousin Kaiden discovered [...]

Palaeontology: Ungulates lived immediately after the end of the dinosaurs

65 million years ago, the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid led to a mass extinction [...]

Prehistoric elephants discovered in Taufkirchen an der Vils near Munich

The animals, which weighed up to 13 tonnes and were over four metres tall, belonged [...]

Vietnam: Hundreds of thousands of fish die due to drought and heat

A persistent heatwave has been plaguing Southeast Asia for weeks. Thailand, the Philippines, Bangladesh and [...]