Smithsonian Magazine

Unique Bone Structure Helped Long-Necked Pterosaurs Fly

The azhdarchid group of pterosaurs were some of the largest animals ever to fly. The giant reptiles lived between 66 million and 225 million years ago, and their unusual proportions—big heads at the ...
Inverse

Discovered: 25,000-year-old structure made from the bones of an Ice Age beast

Six years ago, archeologists discovered a testament to human survival buried beneath birch, pear, and cherry trees. Under layers of dirt, pinpricked with animal burrows and shrubs, was a circle of ...
WRAL

Mysterious Ice Age structure made from hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

Around 25,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers used the bones from 60 mammoths to build a large circular structure in Russia. And no one knows why. Other WRAL Top Stories Researchers have excavated the ...
EurekAlert!

Dinosaurs' unique bone structure key to carrying weight

DALLAS (SMU) - Weighing up to 8,000 pounds, hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs were among the largest dinosaurs to roam the Earth. How did the skeletons of these four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs ...
The Conversation

Putting the bones of giant, extinct ‘thunderbirds’ under the microscope reveals how they grew

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council, ARC Discovery Project grant number, DP 180101913 to T. Worthy, L. Arnold, and A. Chinsamy-Turan and the National Research Foundation, South ...