Eating chalk, often linked to pica, signals potential health issues like nutritional deficiencies or stress. This habit can lead to digestive problems, dental damage, and imbalances. Early recognition ...

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous creator Zack Stentz has called out conservative Christians outraged by a same-sex kiss scene featured in the show’s fifth season. Netflix’s five-season animated ...

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do something that’s long proven elusive: figure out how old the ancient nests really are. Finding these ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

Over Labor Day weekend for the past three-plus decades, families from all over the Sacramento region have traveled to Sacramento’s Fremont Park with chalk in tow. Children grab pieces of chalk, ...

Dead marine giants do not fade quietly. After scavengers strip away the flesh, their sinking bones become banquet halls for specialized worms. These worms drill through the skeleton and siphon its ...

Bone worms (the red animals in this picture) were first discovered in the early 2000s, but these animals are believed to have evolved more than 100 million years ago. Adapted from Fujiwara et al. via ...

Some places you just see things, and then there are a few special places where you experience an unsettling feeling about what you see. A couple of months ago, I visited the Gettysburg Battlefield.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chalk, the data platform for AI inference, announced today that it has raised a $50 million Series A at a $500 million valuation. The round was led by Felicis with ...

A tsunami might have occured some 115 million years ago, near where deposits of Cretaceous amber were found in Japan. Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 Scientists in Japan have uncovered amber deposits ...

The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and ...