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The Extinction Event That Once Reduced Humanity To 1,300 People
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (38+ words) Yahoo Think times are tough for mankind right now? It could always be worse — just ask the handful of humans who lived nearly a million years ago....
How Woolly Mammoth De-Extinction Could Help Fight Climate Change and Restore Arctic Ecosystems
47+ min ago (559+ words) The return of woolly mammoths has been proposed as a way to restore parts of the ancient Arctic landscape and potentially slow some effects of climate change. Supporters of mammoth de-extinction suggest that large grazers could help recreate grasslands, influence…...
Truck-Sized Crocodilians Once Dominated South America's Ancient Wetland, Study Finds
47+ min ago (487+ words) More than 10 million years ago, South America wetlands were home to enormous mammals, giant snakes, terror birds, turtles, and some of the largest prehistoric crocodilians ever known. Among them was Purussaurus neivensis, a massive caiman relative that may have reached…...
Elisa Wilke turns childhood dinosaur passion into educational mission
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (433+ words) "When I was younger, I volunteered for a lot of different animal things," she said. "I was that dinosaur nerd when I was a little kid that knew everything that I could about dinosaurs." Once she started working with kids…...
Reclassifying Hominin Species: The Problem With The Human Family Tree
3+ hour, 50+ min ago (1434+ words) Human evolution might not be as clear-cut as it is written and told. Researchers at Monash University are calling for a rethink of how we name and classify our human ancestors, following recent evolutionary discoveries that show evolution does not…...
Time-Traveling Cousins Battle Dragons and Dinosaurs in New STEM-Infused Adventure, 'Orion Fire Storm"
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (230+ words) There were 1,872 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 484,417 in the last 365 days. Orion Fire Storm by Rick Williams Sr. Author Rick Williams Sr.'s Latest "Dragon and Dinosaur Chronicles" Book Takes Readers on a Time-Traveling Adventure "ORION FIRE…...
More than 10 million years ago, South America had saber-toothed mammals, terror birds and giant snakes. But fossil evidence suggests even its apex land predators could become prey near the water, where the enormous caiman Purussaurus neivensis ruled.
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (1377+ words) Four tooth pits in a terror bird's leg point to a 4.6-to-4.8-meter caiman, probably Purussaurus neivensis, but the fossil cannot distinguish a kill from scavenging. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit Four shallow…...
Jurassic Lanark dinosaur trail hailed as summer success story
17+ hour, 58+ min ago (462+ words) The sixth annual Jurassic Lanark trail was a huge success with its thousands of visitors (Image: Contributed/Hamilton Advertiser) This year’s “bigger and bolder” Jurassic Lanark dinosaur trail has been hailed as a “roaring success” after thousands of locals and…...
Conserving Papyri | Nation/World | gazettextra.com
7+ hour, 15+ min ago (162+ words) Conserving Papyri GazetteXtra Papyrus Conservation Summer Seminar student Alessandra Quadrelli examines a papyrus fragment at the University of Michigan Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Inside one of the world's few crash courses in conserving and caring for ancient papyrus…...
Bird evolution didn’t happen steadily: AI reveals 45 million years of climate-driven changes in skeletons
18+ hour, 10+ min ago (1085+ words) Birds may look remarkably familiar today, but their skeletons carry clues to a far more turbulent evolutionary history. A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan has used artificial intelligence and a novel statistical technique to trace how…...