5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (377+ words) Buried in volcanic mud on a remote island off Antarctica, scientists uncovered something no one expected to find on the frozen continent: a single, coin-sized footprint unlike anything ever recorded there. A research team has just discovered a single fossilized…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (400+ words) Buried beneath the seafloor near Antarctica for 68 million years, a single fossil egg is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient reptiles. It has no skeleton, no obvious owner, and a shape that doesn't match anything paleontologists expected to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (422+ words) An extraordinary fossil discovery off Taiwan is bringing a forgotten human lineage back into the spotlight. After years of uncertainty, researchers now have a rare opportunity to explore what Denisovans were really like. Denisovans were a close relative of Neanderthals…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago   (598+ words) It survived 70 million years underground, and when paleontologists finally uncovered it live on camera, they realized this egg might be the only one of its kind ever found on the continent. Argentine paleontologists have uncovered a nearly intact 70-million-year-old fossilized…...