Predator Potluck: There are 1.6 billion tons of food ... Enormous amounts of pesticides are sprayed on crops that are never eaten, threatening species like the California tiger salamander that are ...
A pollywog is a tadpole, which is an amphibian such as a frog, toad, or salamander’s larval stage. It’s the stage between egg and adult form. Tadpoles appear in the fossil record from ... These ...
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.
Science in the News: Skye Salamander fossils ... end that makes it look a bit like a scorpion. Now that’s used for mating and they are found all around the world. And what makes this creature really ...
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 ...
However, until now, no fossils with preserved heads were found, making it difficult to determine whether Arthropleura was a predator like centipedes or a detritivore like modern millipedes.