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Nocturnal dodo? Study suggests we were very wrong about Mauritius' iconic flightless bird
19+ min ago (877+ words) Rigorously fact-checked science, expert commentary and an ad-free experience built for those who want to go beyond the headlines No ads on any Live Science articles. No pop-ups. Full access to everything. Trusted, in-depth, pro-science features that are available only…...
Journey to the Beginning of Time: A Summer Vacation Filled With Dinosaurs and Megafauna
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (508+ words) In the Hours Preceding the Fall of Tau-Sants" by Rich Larson "Alien Boy" by Fawaz Al-Matrouk "Into Your Sun-Blessed Life" by Isabel Yap "Not Like Other Girls" by A.L. Goldfuss Published on August 12, 2026 Journey to the Beginning of Time (Czech: Cesta…...
Left Hand Laughs
4+ hour, 18+ min ago (29+ words) Left Hand Valley Courier The inventor of the heat index just died. He was 88 but felt like he was 109. You might be interested in:...
New extinct-human discovery fuels claims of Bible's 'Nephilim Giants"
46+ min ago (903+ words) The remains of an extinct human discovered on the seafloor off Taiwan have reignited theories about the giants described in the Bible. Researchers identified the mysterious leg bones as belonging to Denisovans, an ancient human group that split from the…...
Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) Is Older Than We Thought
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (395+ words) Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years. Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor. True to its name, this prokaryote-like organism represents…...
New Bird-Like Dinosaur Identified From Northwest New Mexico Fossil
6+ hour, 29+ min ago (212+ words) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A fossil discovered in northwest New Mexico more than 20 years ago has helped scientists identify a new species of bird-like dinosaur that lived in the state about 73 million years ago. Researchers with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History…...
Calling All Lefties: Celebrate Your Special Day!
12+ hour, 17+ min ago (647+ words) I am a member of an exclusive group of humans. Though small in number-only 15 percent of the world’s population are members– we have infiltrated every arena of life and learned to adapt to the majority’s lifestyle with unflagging, albeit graceless,…...
245-million-year-old reptile fossil preserves the oldest known intact digestive system
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (1245+ words) A 245 million-year-old fossil from China reveals how early reptiles adapted to the sea, preserving both skeleton and digestive system. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Life in the oceans did not always belong to creatures born there. In the wake of Earth’s greatest mass…...
Ancient penguin fossils offer new window into Antarctica's changing climate | EurekAlert!
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (270+ words) image: Sampling area - Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island. view more Credit: Boyang Xia et al., 2026 To study the rare fossils without damaging them, the researchers used micro-X-ray fluorescence scanning to map chemical elements across the surface of the bones. The…...
Scientists Dug Into Ancient Wyoming Rock and Found a Tiny Fossil After 50 Million Years That Didn’t Fit the Evolutionary Record
4+ hour, 2+ min ago (665+ words) Buried deep in Wyoming sandstone, a tiny fossil has revealed that the story scientists knew about an ancient primate group may not have been complete. A tiny primate that lived in what is now Wyoming around 50 million years ago has…...