Ancient "terror crocodiles" had banana-sized teeth to eat dinosaurs
The massive beasts could eat even the largest of dinosaurs — putting them at the top of the food chain.
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The massive beasts could eat even the largest of dinosaurs — putting them at the top of the food chain.
"This was completely opposite to how we expected the earthquake to look before we started to analyze the data," one scientist said.
Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois were hard-hit by a rare kind of storm Monday, a derecho, with winds hitting 100 mph. Hundreds of thousands of people in the area lost power. Adriana Diaz reports.
It's the largest earthquake to hit the state since 1916. It was felt as far away as Tennessee and South Carolina.
During these unsettling times, the comedian has found a measure of control in a backyard garden, by planting seeds, watering them, and growing something where there used to be just dirt.
Urgent efforts increased in Mauritius to empty a stranded Japanese ship of an estimated 2,500 tons of oil before the vessel breaks up and increases the contamination of the island's once-pristine Indian Ocean coastline. More than 1,000 tons of fuel has washed up on the eastern coast of Mauritius.
A 4,000-year-old chunk of ice larger than the size of Manhattan has collapsed into the Arctic Ocean.
A "hell ant" some 99 million years ago used its scythe-like jaws to trap a baby roach for its next meal — but then the pair got stuck in sap and were preserved for scientists to discover centuries later.
Scientists predicted that the ice caps wouldn't completely melt until 2022.
Although heat waves rarely get the attention that hurricanes do, they kill far more people per year in the U.S.