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4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (402+ words) A frozen wolf pup that died more than 14,000 years ago has become an unlikely archivist of extinction. Inside its stomach, scientists found preserved flesh from a woolly rhino, and that grisly detail has now helped answer a long-running question about…...

5+ hour, 18+ min ago   (1076+ words) A scrap of tissue, preserved for thousands of years inside an ancient wolf, has given scientists a rare look at a woolly rhinoceros that lived right near the species" end." What they found is not the slow, sad genetic unraveling…...

9+ hour, 3+ min ago   (400+ words) The level of detail visible on the specimens was unlike anything the National Trust had previously encountered in the area National Trust staff have unearthed remarkable fossils dating back 340 million years within a dry stonewall in Staffordshire's White Peak region....

10+ hour, 15+ min ago   (606+ words) The enormous body mass of sauropods, mastodons and mammoths imposes limitations on bones, joints, available forces and physiology. According to the authors of a new study, for the largest sauropods, which weigh up to 50 tons, maximum speeds are around 10 km…...

11+ hour, 15+ min ago   (188+ words) DINOSAUR, Colo. " Paleontologists removed new dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site at Utah's Dinosaur National Monument on Friday. The National Park Service reported that the fossils were identified on Sept. 16, 2025, when construction crews removed a portion of the…...

14+ hour, 46+ min ago   (401+ words) A new study challenges long-held beliefs about early human speech, suggesting Homo erectus may have been the first to master language. For decades, the origins of human speech have remained one of science's most captivating mysteries. A new study published…...

17+ hour, 31+ min ago   (1252+ words) Rhinoceroses, often called the living tanks of the animal kingdom, may appear to be indiscriminate eaters due to their massive size and prehistoric appearance. However, these magnificent creatures are surprisingly selective when it comes to their dietary choices. Despite weighing…...

18+ hour, 26+ 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…...

18+ hour, 54+ min ago   (865+ words) The study involved Argentinian and international researchers, and combined field findings with high-resolution CT scans. The result was a more consistent reconstruction of the evolutionary tree of snakes, contradicting classic hypotheses and opening debates about when and why snakes became…...

19+ hour, 48+ 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…...