Tag Archives: Stalked

Published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of Chilean scientists announced the discovery of Yeutherium pressor, a mouse-sized mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs roughly 74 million years ago. Found in the remote Rio de las Chinas Valley in the Magallanes region of southern Chile, the fossil offers an unusually complete glimpse into the diversity …

A peer-reviewed study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has documented the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, Australia. Measuring 23.31 millimeters in body length—about five times larger than modern trapdoor spiders—this extinct species, named Megamonodontium mccluskyi, dates back to the Miocene epoch and offers a rare window …