NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption.
The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...
Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest yet.
A team of researchers analyzed a 12-million-year-old fossilized bone discovered in Colombia's fossiliferous Tatacoa Desert ...
Earlier examples of Phorusrhacid fossils grew up to 9 feet tall ... A Giant Bird vs. an Apex Predator The animal must have been a scary specimen back then. Imagine a massive ostrich- or emu-like ...
A 12-million-year-old fossil has revealed what may be the largest known "terror bird" ever found, according to paleontologists.
A Colombian rancher has discovered a fossilized bone that points to the existence of a giant terror bird species. The fossil, an enormous leg bone found in the ...
Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.