We cheered on our Olympic athletes, made scientific breakthroughs deep in the Earth and high above the clouds, became Instagram famous and cooked up a storm.
To say 2016 has been an eventful year would be an understatement.
A species of ancient predator with saw-like teeth, sleek bodies and a voracious appetite for meat survived a major extinction at a time when the distant relatives of mammals ruled the earth.
December 06, 2011
The Tyrannosaurus rex – and other theropod dinosaurs feared and loved by children everywhere – had a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure, researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered.
July 30, 2015
Imagine a voracious carnivore sinking its teeth into the tail of a small reptile, anticipating a delicious lunch, when, in a flash, the reptile is gone and the carnivore is left holding a wiggling tail between its jaws.
March 05, 2018
The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable, but their ancient ancestors had a full array of teeth, large fangs and thousands of tiny hook-like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths that would snare prey, according to new research b
September 14, 2017
An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus-revealing significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behaviour in early dinosaurs.
January 24, 2012
Imagine how much dental care you’d need if you had 300 or more teeth packed together on each side of your mouth.
August 16, 2016
A study of the world’s earliest known dinosaur eggs reveals new information about the evolution of dinosaur reproduction.
March 14, 2019
New research from the University of Toronto Mississauga demonstrates how carnivores transitioned into herbivores for the first time on land.
April 17, 2014
Is fossilized rock all that remains when a dinosaur decomposes?
February 01, 2017