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5+ hour, 45+ min ago   (195+ words) Published Jan 30, 2026 1:27 PM EST But MNG 17001 doesn't look anything like a coprolite. The bone fragments aren't housed in a sedimentary matrix, and it had very low phosphorus levels. Taken altogether, the team knew they were looking at a regurgitalite, or…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (585+ words) Learn how fossils from Colorado's Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the role of young sauropods. Sauropods, the long-neck dinosaurs that towered over the Jurassic landscape, grew up next to lots of hungry neighbors....

6+ hour, 52+ min ago   (587+ words) New research led by University College London paleontologists shows that newly-hatched long-necked giants were prey for multiple carnivores long before Tyrannosaurus rex emerged. Ecosystem reconstruction of the Late Jurassic Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry around 150 million years ago in Colorado, the…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago   (151+ words) Neanderthals purposefully collected and positioned horned and antlered animal skulls in a cave in what is now Spain, suggesting that these extinct human relatives had complex cultural practices over 43,000 years ago, a new study finds. "At first glance, the deposit…...

8+ hour, 12+ min ago   (360+ words) Jackson and Rafael, two animal lovers, knew they wanted to help. They reached out to the bearded dragon's owner, who agreed to give them the lizard. "We just had this gut feeling that [the bearded dragon] needed someone," Jackson told…...

10+ hour, 8+ min ago   (387+ words) Jonesboro, AR " (Contributed) " This year, the Darwin Day activities at Arkansas State University kick off with an exhibit at A-State Museum, located at 320 University Loop, inside Dean B. Ellis Library." "The exhibit will feature fossils and specimens of different plants and…...

10+ hour, 9+ min ago   (533+ words) Home " News " 10 Ancient Australian Creatures That Defy Evolution Australia's isolation from the rest of the world has resulted in a unique environment where time appears to stand still. Many species here are living fossils, having persisted for millions of years…...

10+ hour, 12+ min ago   (882+ words) By Emily Hunt, David Raubenheimer, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli / The Conversation Published Jan 30, 2026 2:00 PM EST This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the water, each…...

10+ hour, 43+ min ago   (102+ words) The Original Article was published on 17 September 2025 Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA Paleontology, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada…...

11+ hour, 4+ min ago   (576+ words) They used four high-tech eyes to survive the Cambrian. Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It's been that way for millions and millions of years. But maybe it wasn't like that forever....