Using modern technology like drones and 3D scanners, researchers were able to detect footprints left by the crocodile-like rhinesuchid temnospondyl roughly 255 million years ago.Dmitry Bogdanov/Wikimedia CommonsAn artist’s rendering of what rhinesuchid temnospondyl may have looked like more than 250 million years ago.
Finding dinosaur footprints is exciting enough. But at the Dave Green palaeosurface in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa, researchers were able to detect footprints left by a creature who lived millions of years before dinosaurs appeared on the Earth. Read More...
"It's a very Dr. Seuss-looking tree."Tim StonesiferA model of Sanfordiacaulis densifolia.
Researchers recently discovered fossils of a prehistoric tree “unlike any of those that live at the present” in New Brunswick, Canada.
This ancient, alien-like tree was given the name Sanfordiacaulis densifolia in a new study published in the scientific journal Current Biology.
The Discovery Of ‘Sanfordiacaulis Densifolia’ Two co-authors of the study, Olivia King and Matthew Stimson, unearthed the first Sanfordiacaulis densifolia fossil in a New Brunswick quarry in 2017, and in the years since, scientists have discovered four more. Read More...
The Save the Rhino organization estimates that poachers kill one rhino for its horns each day in South Africa.Flickr/Vaughan LeiberumElephant herds are generally peaceful, and will only attack humans if threatened or harassed.
A man attempting to poach rhinos met a sticky end on a South African game reserve. While fleeing from park rangers, the poacher was trampled by a stampede of elephants — and died from his injuries.
The poacher, who remains unidentified publicly, was with two accomplices at South Africa’s Kruger National Park on the hunt for rhinos. Read More...
