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New species of giant green anaconda discovered in never-before-seen footage
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (517+ words) This is Ecuador's Wild Wild West. Never-before-seen video shows the dramatic moment that scientists encountered a new anaconda species while filming the National Geographic travel series "Pole to Pole with Will Smith." The footage was captured last year, but was…...
Evolution debate reignited after 'missing link is found in cave
5+ hour, 11+ min ago (946+ words) Scientists have uncovered ancient human remains that could represent a crucial link in our evolutionary history. Fossils, including bones and teeth, dating back 773,000 years, were unearthed in a Moroccan cave, displaying a mosaic of modern and primitive features." The face…...
Study: Late Ordovician Mass Extinction Cleared Way for First Fishes | Sci.News
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (492+ words) Life reconstruction of Sacabambaspis janvieri, a species of armored jawless fish that lived during the Ordovician period. Image credit: Kaori Serakaki, OIST. Most vertebrate lineages are first recorded from the mid-Paleozoic, well after their Cambrian origin and Ordovician invertebrate biodiversification…...
Archaeologists uncovered the remains of man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal lion encounter
6+ hour, 3+ min ago (466+ words) Archaeologists recently uncovered'the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago " and survived a brutal encounter with a lion. A study published in the February 2026 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports focuses on a Late Eneolithic…...
Inside the classroom: Time traveling through geology
8+ hour, 4+ min ago (899+ words) A popular course, GEOL 130 opens a portal to experience prehistory" Eager to delve into the question of whether a Tyrannosaurus rex could catch and snatch a Jeep Wrangler, Prof. Dave Sunderlin opened his lab by showing a classic scene from…...
Fossilized Bones Can Reveal Chemical Traces of Ancient Biology, New Research Demonstrates
8+ hour, 16+ min ago (788+ words) New research demonstrates that fossilized bones, which preserve'physical records of ancient life,'can also retain chemical traces of the metabolism of those life forms. The discovery, detailed in a'new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University, opens…...
Mass extinction that wiped out ancient seas opened way for 'Age of Fishes"
13+ hour, 36+ min ago (480+ words) A catastrophic mass extinction nearly 445 million years ago did not just erase life from Earth's oceans. According to a new fossil database analysis, it also cleared the ecological ground for the rise of jawed vertebrates, setting life on a path…...
The month we became a new species
15+ hour, 2+ min ago (626+ words) But what happened in that lab didn't stay there. The announcement triggered an immediate storm of ethical, philosophical, and legal questions. Are we inching closer to solving one of medicine's greatest challenges'or are we rewriting what it means to be…...
🐝 When digger bees make their nests in bones!
17+ hour, 8+ min ago (21+ words) " When digger bees make their nests in bones!Techno-Science.net " When digger bees make their nests in bones!...
Alaska fossils misidentified as Mammoth bones for 70 Years revealed as Whale bones
17+ hour, 30+ min ago (372+ words) For 70 years, fossils were labelled as mammoth bones in Alaska. They were kept in a museum without proper scientific re-examination. Recent testing revealed the bones actually belong to ancient whales. This surprising discovery challenges decades of assumptions in palaeontology. The…...