13+ hour, 5+ min ago   (475+ words) A routine frog habitat survey in a California creek revealed a massive fossil hiding half beneath the water. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (483+ words) These ancient humans left footprints side by side 1.4 million years ago. Now scientists are asking who they really were, and why they were never found alone. Eight sets of 1.4-million-year-old footprints, pressed into the mud of an ancient Kenyan lakeshore,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (242+ words) A Mammoth has been waiting hundreds of thousands of years for someone to find it. Now that a Bulgarian riverbank has finally given it up, researchers are left with more questions than answers about how it got there. Record-low water…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (509+ words) A family vacationing on the New Jersey coast recently made a discovery of considerable scientific interest: a megalodon tooth dating back millions of years. The circumstances behind the find prove just as remarkable as the object itself. A family from…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (392+ words) Our DNA is still preserving evidence of encounters that happened deep in human prehistory. A new analysis of the human genome has uncovered genetic traces that do not fit neatly with the ancient relatives scientists already know. Scientists already know…...