Many historians assume that these ancient “bone skates” were utilitarian devices, used for fast transit along frozen rivers ...
For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...
About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...
Just a few years ago, explorers mapping the bottom of the Bay of Mecklenburg off northern Germany stumbled on something ...
Dinosaurs dominate the imagination, but Earth’s deep history is crowded with other rulers, from armored fish and giant ...
Reeling in a 100-pound halibut? Aiming to outrun the world’s fastest man? Trying to become the greatest speed skater of all ...
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks’ (MDWFP) Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) will soon ...
Previous research indicated that kangaroos weighing more than about 350 pounds would rupture their ankle tendons if they tried to hop. The largest of the Ice Age kangaroos, Procoptodon goliah, which ...
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks’ (MDWFP) Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) invites ...
New fossil discoveries reveal that colossal kangaroos from Australia’s Ice Age could still bounce across the landscape, despite their size.
A mastodon bone will be on display at the Museum of Fulton County, nearly half a century after its original discovery.
A new exhibit featuring life-sized, robotic Ice Age animals will open Jan. 31 at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.