James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
New research has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding ...
In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don't usually include any leaves to show what their canopies and overall forms may have looked like. In a new study, ...
About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...
In the early 2000s, local fossil collector Mohamed ‘Ou Said’ Ben Moula discovered numerous fossils at Fezouata Shale, a site in Morocco known for its well-preserved fossils from the Early Ordovician ...
In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 ...
It's frustrating and gross, but we’ve all done it. We’ve all stepped in poop. Most of us would like to forget the experience. But 33 million years ago, now-extinct life forms stepped in it, and ...
A group of researchers in Utah discovered rare fossils of herbivorous mammal relatives that lived in the area about 180 million years ago, according to the National Park Service. The paleontologists ...
Arnau Bolet is at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès E08193, Spain, and in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol ...