JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said today. ...more

November 11, 2009

A Light in Financial Gloom: Gas Falls To $3 A Gallon Gut-wrenching declines in the stock market, a financial panic that some have compared to the Great Depression and the realization that the United States may be headed to its worst recession in more than a generation have trumped what should otherwise be good news: The return of $3-a-gallon gas. ...more

October 19, 2008

Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull. Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, one that scurried across wooded areas of South America about 4 million years ago, when the continent was not connected to North America. ...more

January 17, 2008

The skeleton of what is believed to be a new dinosaur species - a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found - has been uncovered in Argentina, scientists said Monday. ...more

October 16, 2007

The world, it seems, was its salad bar. Scientists are amazed at the chomping ability of a newly described duck-billed dinosaur. The herbivore's powerful jaw, more than 800 teeth and compact skull meant that no leaf, branch or bush would have been safe, they say. ...more

October 4, 2007