Scientists have revealed the world’s largest-ever cheetah species after analyzing fossils of the behemoth creature’s skull. The colossal predator was as heavy as the biggest cats alive today and more than three times as heavy as modern cheetahs. The species, Acinonyx pleistocaenicus, roamed Eurasia from around 1.3 million to 500,000 years ago. It was first […]
DALLAS (AP) — Scientists once thought of dinosaurs as sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Then research suggested that some could control their body temperature, but when and how that shift came about remained a mystery. Now, a new study estimates that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed the Earth about 180 million years ago, about halfway […]
The disturbing case of two children found in “the middle of a busy road” got stranger still when deputies discovered their mother wasn’t concerned, Florida investigators say. That’s because she was intoxicated at the time, the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office reported in an April 7 news release. Deputies rousted the 30-year-old woman Saturday, April 6, […]