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1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (156+ words) A new analysis of turtle shell fragments unearthed at the Paleolithic site of Neumark-Nord in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt suggests Neanderthals regularly hunted the diminutive European pond turtle. A team led by archaeologist Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from the Institute for…...

2+ hour ago  (362+ words) Hidden in ancient rock, a fossil is forcing researchers to take another look at how birds first emerged. A newly discovered bird fossil from China is changing what scientists thought they knew about when birds first took shape. The species,…...

3+ hour ago  (679+ words) A Pair of 7, 000-Year-Old Sahara Skeletons Revealed a Hidden Human Lineage With a Story Stranger Than Expected. Two women buried 7, 000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have no business being genetically mysterious. They lived during the African Humid Period,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (767+ words) Leaf through a textbook, watch a wellness influencer or listen in at the gym, and it can feel as though the human body has already been mapped to exhaustion. Every muscle named, every nerve traced. Everything understood and readily available....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (569+ words) A flying relative of dinosaurs, Bakiribu waridza (comb mouth" in the Kariri language) filtered crustaceans and other small organisms from rivers and lakes, where it was likely swallowed by a predator that regurgitated it in the Araripe Basin in Brazi…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (783+ words) This was very unexpected, because fossils from the Araripe region have been studied for decades and almost 30 types of pterosaurs had already been found," said Rubi Vargas P'gas, a postdoctoral researcher at the Museum of Zoology of the University of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1004+ words) Picture this: you're a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so wrong you assume it broke underground. Then you find another one. Same weird twist. Then another. And another....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (656+ words) Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body's health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are present, such as cholesterols, lipids…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago  (676+ words) How birds survived the dinosaurs" doomsday Scientists finally understand why birds were the only dinosaurs to pull through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction By Steve Brusatte edited by Kate Wong An early modern bird, Asteriornis, eats seeds in the aftermath of…...

9+ hour, 58+ min ago  (357+ words) This breakthrough resolves more than 100 years of scientific uncertainty and provides a clear classification for future research. Unique features that distinguish the species At first glance, Dopasia formosensis closely resembles a snake due to its elongated, limbless body. However, key…...