14+ hour, 47+ min ago   (864+ words) Free climbers scrambling over a steep coastal mountain in Italy noticed something odd on a broad slab of limestone. The rock sitting on the Monte Conero anticline near Ancona, in Italy's Marche region, holds many deep, paddle-like footprint tracks packed…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (878+ words) Flying is expensive. If you're going to stay in the air, you need to be good at getting food, handling it fast, and swallowing it without wasting time or energy." That's why a new Archaeopteryx study is so interesting: it…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (929+ words) For more than a century, dinosaur footprints have been both a gift and a headache. They're some of the most direct evidence we have of animals moving through real landscapes, but they're also notoriously hard to interpret. A footprint is…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1069+ words) The asteroid strike 66 million years ago is famous for leading the dinosaurs to extinction. But it didn't only destroy.According to new research, it also opened the door for life to restart and recover after that mass extinction far faster…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (785+ words) A remarkable fossil discovery is offering scientists a clearer view into one of the earliest chapters of human history. Researchers from several countries uncovered an unusually complete Homo habilis skeleton that dates back more than two million years. The skeleton…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (755+ words) For decades, scientists have debated whether early humans truly took on the largest animals around them or merely stumbled across the leftovers. Massive bones and stone tools often turn up side by side at ancient sites, but nature can easily…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1076+ words) A scrap of tissue, preserved for thousands of years inside an ancient wolf, has given scientists a rare look at a woolly rhinoceros that lived right near the species" end." What they found is not the slow, sad genetic unraveling…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (789+ words) A creature with enormous eyes hid for centuries beneath a Spanish city and appeared in a forgotten Roman mine dating back 2,000 years The Carmona isopod, a new species named Baeticoniscus carmonaensis, turned up in a 2,000-year-old Roman water mine beneath…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (788+ words) The Nesher Ramla hunting record suggests archaic humans selectively hunted wild cattle about 120,000 years ago in central Israel. Researchers at the Nesher Ramla site found bones and tools showing repeated, planned kills of Bos primigenius, not one herd wipeout. Evidence…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (844+ words) Evidence from the Luulityn Toirom paleolake shows the Gobi Desert in Mongolia supported human life about 8,000 years ago. It matters because it connects climate swings, lake growth and collapse, and everyday toolmaking to survival in an extreme landscape. Sediment layers…...