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2 Million-Year-Old Mastodon Skull and Tusks Unearthed in Chile

Now that's some mammoth discovery. The skull and tusks of a 2 million-year-old elephant relative -- a mastodon -- have been unearthed in Chile. Construction workers building a hydroelectric power plant near the Chilean capital of Santiago dug up 4-foot-long, 6-inch-wide tusks as well as the first complete mastodon skull...

32 Percent of Russians Think the Sun Revolves Around Earth

Does the sun revolve around Earth? Is radioactivity a human invention? Did humans ever live side by side with dinosaurs? A surprising number of people in Russia answered those and other questions with a resounding "yes." A survey published this week by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center targeted scientific...

The Big One -- Thomas the T. Rex -- Hits Los Angeles

He has arrived. Direct from southwestern Montana, meet Thomas the T-rex. Excavated between 2003-2005 by Dr. Luis Chiappe and his Dinosaur Institute team from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the 30-foot Thomas -- as well as a 20-foot juvenile T-rex and a 10-foot baby T-rex -- were the first dinosaurs to...

Early T. Rex Ancestor Found in South America

WASHINGTON - Back at the dawn of the dinosaur era, a quick-moving predator set the stage for the famous and fearsome giants that followed in its footsteps, according to new research. "It was a little dinosaur, but it carried a big evolutionary stick," said Paul C. Sereno of the University of Chicago, a leader of the team...

Giant Flying Lizard Could Cross Whole Continents

(Nov. 15) -- Coast-to-coast nonstop flights. Not bad for a giant lizard. According to a new study published by palaeontologists in England and the United States, not only did the giraffe-sized lizard, known as pterosaur, fly, it flew incredibly long distances. The research by Drs. Mark Witton and Michael Habib was...