India, known for its rich biodiversity, designates official state animals to symbolise its ecological and cultural heritage. Each of the 28 states has a unique state animal, often chosen based on its ...

A new study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark megalodon ... apart from all previous papers on body size and shape estimates of O.

Additionally, many of the skulls and teeth found are unusually large. The fossil size reveals that this prehistoric society would’ve been made up of large males and small females. This organizational ...

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the ... made up less than 1 percent of the identified animal remains at the site and the 27 specimens did not ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone ... of their overall shape, size and sharp edges, it's likely that they may have been employed to process animal carcasses for food.

Though they vanished their legacy offers clues about evolution extinction and the limits of animal size. [prehistoric giants] [ancient animals] [megafauna] [forgotten creatures] [prehistoric ...

And to bring it back around to the Asian elephant, that elephant had a very high rate of evolution for body size. They got big really fast. So in practical terms, that means that the Asian elephant ...

Bigger creatures have long baffled scientists who study cancer. For decades, a widespread view called Peto’s paradox suggested that an animal’s size had no bearing on cancer risk. But now, a recent ...