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12 Animals That Have Barely Changed Since the Age of Dinosaurs
4+ hour, 33+ min ago (641+ words) Home " News " 12 Animals That Have Barely Changed Since the Age of Dinosaurs The horseshoe crab is an extraordinary survivor, having existed for around 450 million years. Found along the coastlines of North America and Asia, these creatures are more closely related…...
The complicated human story
5+ hour, 55+ min ago (608+ words) Fossil and genetic evidence indicates our immediate human ancestors evolved in Africa beginning about two million years ago from older hominid stock. By that time there were at least three different hominid species that eventually gave rise to the human…...
13 Airborne Animals That Glide Without Wings
6+ hour, 3+ min ago (1083+ words) When we think of animals that soar through the air, birds and bats typically come to mind. However, nature has evolved remarkable adaptations that allow many creatures to glide through the air without true wings. These extraordinary animals have developed…...
Scientists Extract Pristine Rhinoceros Dna From a Predator’s Last Meal
9+ hour, 23+ min ago (593+ words) A remarkable discovery in Siberia has revealed the best-preserved DNA of a woolly rhinoceros ever found, extracted from muscle tissue inside a 14,400-year-old wolf cub. The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), a cold-adapted herbivore once common across northern Eurasia, vanished around…...
A Biologist Explains How Prehistoric ‘Terror Birds’ Earned Their Name
9+ hour, 23+ min ago (1001+ words) Evolution occasionally indulges us with organisms that seem too cool or too scary to be true, like something out of a science fiction film. The phorusrhacids, better known as "terror birds," are one such case. These were large, flightless predatory…...
With its elongated neck, high nostrils, and presence in Brazil, Macrauchenia patachonica roamed South America during the Pleistocene as a humpless "camel" that intrigued Darwin and the scientific community.
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (352+ words) How discarded Christmas trees are turning into branch "reefs" in lakes, creating shelter for fish, boosting local fishing, and transforming seasonal waste into an environmental tool. With the tide rushing into homes and an entire community crammed onto a tiny…...
Dino-mate! Dinosaur’s painful hookups were literally bone-crushing, study shows
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (538+ words) Dinosaurs liked it rough " and the fossils they left behind prove it. Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they literally broke each other's bones, a new study in the journal…...
2-million-year-old skeleton reveals ape-like features in early humans
9+ hour, 56+ min ago (551+ words) After 10 years of painstaking research in Kenya, scientists have finally confirmed the identity of a unique two-million-year-old H. habilis individual. A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution. Scientists once believed that our early ancestors…...
Yorkshire fossil hunters reveal 'wow factor' of Holderness coast
10+ hour, 29+ min ago (627+ words) The East Yorkshire coast attracts thousands of tourists each year but the beaches and cliffs that make up the landscape are becoming a growing attraction for people seeking more than a day at the seaside. On the fastest eroding coastline…...
Latest in DNA Research Destroys Evolutionary “Proof”
11+ hour, 36+ min ago (235+ words) For decades, we've heard that so-called "junk DNA" is proof of evolution. After all, what kind of Creator would fill our genome with large areas of DNA that don't do anything? Clearly, those regions are just leftovers from millions of…...