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6+ hour, 46+ min ago  (304+ words) Sponges rank among the oldest known animals on Earth, yet scientists have struggled to pinpoint exactly when they first appeared. DNA from living sponges and chemical traces preserved in ancient rocks indicate they emerged at least 650 million years ago. The…...

8+ hour, 58+ min ago  (330+ words) Historical records from expeditions over 250 years ago describe crocodiles as abundant along the shores of the Seychelles Islands. However, after permanent settlement began in 1770, the local population declined rapidly and was driven to extinction within about five decades. A recent…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago  (474+ words) According to a study carried out from the University of Murcia, the Neanderthals They lived in much more diverse environments, including temperate forests and Mediterranean landscapes. The plants were source of food, shelter and ecological stability. The study carried out…...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago  (438+ words) Tiny insects trapped in fossilized tree resin are offering scientists a rare window into life on Earth millions of years ago. A new study of amber pieces from the time of the dinosaurs suggests that these perfectly preserved insects can…...

13+ hour, 19+ min ago  (378+ words) BEIJING -- A team of international scientists from China and Spain has identified two well-preserved fossilized lizard trackways in Asturias, Spain, marking the first record of Jurassic lizard trackways in Europe. Conducted by the team led by Laura Pinuela from the…...

15+ hour, 13+ min ago  (10+ words) Hunt Slonem | Chinensis Blizzard (2026) | Available for Sale'Artsy...

20+ hour, 2+ min ago  (463+ words) Over the last few years, I've gradually been assembling what I imaginatively call the Big Spreadsheet. It's a record of every single vertebrate fossil on display at a number of natural history museums, mostly in the United States (so far…...

23+ hour, 45+ min ago  (632+ words) Fossils trapped in amber aren't just beautiful, they may preserve real ecological interactions, including possible parasitism or commensal relationships between ants and mites, as revealed by a new, cutting-edge morphological study of six specimens of Baltic, Dominican and Burmese amber....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (714+ words) Home - Science - The day when dozens of sea turtles panicked and fled at full speed under the sea 79 million years ago: Italian climbers have just found their perfectly preserved footprints after an avalanche caused by a prehistoric earthquake Rock climbers…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (286+ words) Turns out, the Tyrannosaurus rex may not have stomped around like a Hollywood monster after all. According to the KJ, a21-year-old student at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor just helped flip the script on one of the…...