[ad_1] Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of a “sling” language in 99-million-year-old amphibian fossils. The armored prehistoric creatures, known as albanerpetontids, were predators sitting and waiting for them to grab their prey with a bullet of their “ballistic tongues”. Although they had lizard-like claws, scales and tails, analysis indicates …
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[ad_1] How long have mammals been social creatures? At least on the late Cretaceous side of the dinosaur era, according to a new study, which reports the first evidence of the behavior around 10 million years old. Studying fossils of the small rodent Filikomys primaevus (meaning “young and friendly mouse”) …
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[ad_1] Pterosaurs, like the pterodactyl, are some of the largest animals to ever take flight, but one study suggests that early aviator reptiles were clumsy flying, only capable of traveling short distances. Research may also shed new light on the evolution of flight more generally. Pterosaurs evolved about 245 million …
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