Author: Jeremy Rehm / Source: Science News A new dinosaur shows that even Tyrannosaurus rex had humble beginnings. Dubbed Moros intrepidus, or “the harbinger of doom,” the new species is one of the smallest tyrannosaurs yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period. Analyses of the animal’s

Author: Peter Forbes / Source: Big Think A lazy buzz phrase – ‘Is this the new normal?’ – has been doing the rounds as extreme climate events have been piling up over the past year. To which the riposte should be: it’s worse than that – we’re on the road to even more frequent, more extreme events

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News The extinction event that wiped out all nonbird dinosaurs about 66 million years ago also shook up shark evolution. Fossilized shark teeth show that the extinction marked a shift in the relative fates of two groups of sharks. Apex predators called

Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura Picture a classic Cretaceous scene. Sure, you’re a bit too late to have caught it in person, but if you’ve seen a kid’s book lately, you know the one. Broad-leafed plants cover the landscape. Triceratops graze, and velociraptors sneak around. Above

The new fossil mammal, named Vintana sertichi, belongs to Gondwanatheria(or gondwanatherians), a group of early mammals that lived during the Cretaceous through the Miocene in the Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctica. The animal’s skull was huge, measuring 13 cm long – twice the size of the