Tag: giant

Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its skull alone was over two feet long. It...

Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt

OCEANOGRAPHY
Every spring when the sun rises in the Arctic after months of darkness, life returns. The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs,...

These giant, prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth

PALEONTOLOGY
Oncorhynchus rastrosus, a giant species of salmon that lived in the North American Pacific Northwest a few million years ago, sported a pair of...

Ancient giant tortoise fossils found in Colombian Andes

PALEONTOLOGY
Paleontologists have discovered giant tortoise fossils in Colombia dating back some 57 million years, the university leading the excavation said, with the findings key...

Discovery of new ancient giant snake in India

PALEONTOLOGY
A new ancient species of snake dubbed Vasuki Indicus, which lived around 47 million years ago in the state of Gujarat in India, may...

Ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon

PALEONTOLOGY
Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have announced the discovery of a new species of freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon region. Surprisingly, its...

Giant volcano discovered on Mars

ASTRONOMY
In a groundbreaking announcement at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a giant...

Fossils of giant sea lizard with dagger-like teeth show how our oceans have fundamentally changed since the dinosaur era

PALEONTOLOGY
Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. Their...

What turned Earth into a giant snowball 700 million years ago? Scientists now have an answer

EARTH
Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modeling to determine what most likely caused an extreme ice-age climate in Earth's history, more than 700 million...

Study shows that Rio Grande Rise was once a giant mineral-rich tropical island near Brazil

EARTH
A study led by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has shown that the Rio Grande Rise (RGR), a possibly...

People, not the climate, found to have caused the decline of the giant mammals

PALEONTOLOGY
For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several...

Garumbatitan: A new giant dinosaur in the Lower Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula

PALEONTOLOGY
A new study describes a new sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Iberian Peninsula 122 million years ago. This new species of dinosaur, Garumbatitan...
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