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'A moment in time': Fossil footprints shed new light on the extinct 'Nutcracker Man"
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (721+ words) Scientists have revised the longstanding picture of “Nutcracker Man” — an extinct hominin, or human relative, nicknamed for its large teeth and powerful jaw muscles — thanks to fresh analysis of fossil footprints from a site in Kenya. Nutcracker Man, whose species…...
These Ancient Sea Worms Have “Biometal” Jaws
51+ min ago (402+ words) Not as scary as a great white shark, but the science is fascinating 3:00 PM CDT on August 4, 2026 There’s much in the natural world scientists and engineers can use for materials inspiration. Take, for example, the ancient bristle sea worm Perinereis…...
Darwin tenía razón: 150 años después, científicos confirman que una planta que él analizó es carnívora
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (478+ words) Por Mindy Weisberger, CNN Los pelos pegajosos de dos especies de plantas del género Saxifraga llevaron al célebre naturalista británico Charles Darwin a preguntarse si algunas de esas variedades podían ser carnívoras. En ese momento no pudo demostrarlo, pero más…...
Fossils from Wyoming’s Smiley Draw deepen understanding of early primate evolution
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (491+ words) image: A field crew collects fossils along the Smiley Draw sandstone in Wyoming. view more LAWRENCE — A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene,…...
244-Million-Year-Old Fossil Preserves Earliest Reptilian Digestive System
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (642+ words) An exquisitely preserved specimen of Austronaga minuta, a small, long-necked marine reptile from the Triassic of China, contains a fossilized stomach, liver and intestines, offering paleontologists their oldest detailed glimpse yet of how early reptiles digested food. Life reconstruction of…...
Scientists prove Darwin right: Alpine plant discovered to be carnivorous after 150 years
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (234+ words) Published August 04, 2026 More than 150 years after Charles Darwin first suspected that certain plants in the Saxifraga genus are carnivorous. It was also Darwin who first thought in 1875 that two European species of Saxifraga could be carnivorous plants due to sticky…...
100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Preserves an Ichthyosaur That Ate a Pterosaur Before Becoming Food for a Giant Predator
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (181+ words) Thanks to fossilized evidence from Richmond, Queensland, researchers found a marine reptile had eaten a flying reptile shortly before becoming a meal for a larger predator. This is some of the first fossilized evidence of its kind, according to a…...
Just an hour from Lisbon, Portugal’s largest open-air museum dedicated to the world of dinosaurs has already attracted more than 1.4 million visitors—and is home to the largest specimen in all of Europe
10+ hour, 19+ min ago (547+ words) With the new “Before the Giants” area and the impressive 45-meter Supersaurus, this open-air museum in Lourinhã has already attracted more than 1.4 million visitors and even allows your four-legged friends to come along. Did you know that the Supersaurus, a…...
Half a billion years ago, animal feces transformed Earth's oceans
5+ hour, 56+ min ago (1006+ words) Half a billion years ago, the seafloor began filling with droppings. Cambrian coprolites – fossilized feces – piled into the mud as pellets, strings, and shell-packed lumps. A new review argues that this waste was no curiosity. It fed a nutrient system…...
Darwin proposed that a type of plant was carnivorous. Scientists finally proved him right | CNN
48+ min ago (504+ words) Sticky “hairs” on two plant species in the Saxifraga genus led famed British naturalist Charles Darwin to wonder: Could some plants in this genus be carnivorous? He couldn’t prove it then, but more than 150 years later, scientists have shown that…...