2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (816+ words) T. rex's famously tiny arms may have been the result of one terrifying evolutionary upgrade: an enormous skull built for crushing prey. Credit: Shutterstock A new study suggests T. rex and other giant predators evolved tiny arms because their massive skulls took…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (441+ words) During the Late Bronze Age, these palatial centers ranked among the most dominant powers of the Aegean and the wider Mediterranean, overseeing sprawling trade networks that exchanged fine pottery and bronze for Egyptian gold and goods from the Levant. The…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (174+ words) It was more than it was Kraken-ed up to be. An octopus the size of the Hollywood Sign might seem like a monster from Greek mythology. This massive mollusk "had among the largest body sizes of all organisms in the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (156+ words) A new analysis of turtle shell fragments unearthed at the Paleolithic site of Neumark-Nord in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt suggests Neanderthals regularly hunted the diminutive European pond turtle. A team led by archaeologist Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from the Institute for…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (930+ words) Deep within the frozen ground of Devon Island in Canada's High Arctic, researchers found the nearly complete skeleton of a rhinoceros, Epiaceratherium itjilik, that lived there around 23 million years ago. The discovery, made by a team from the Canadian Museum…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (266+ words) At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shaped head crest and jaws bearing interlocking teeth for…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (85+ words) Interesting how man made climate change started 20, 000 years ago. Camp fires can cause earth warming? And that English channel property prices went down. And all we got was the ability to farm in Europe. Or pick berries. Really interesting when…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1166+ words) 1. 6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Combines Homo habilis Face With Homo erectus Brow The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia's Afar region, dated to between 1. 6 and 1. 5 million years…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (216+ words) MILAN (AP) " A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1004+ words) A mysterious fossil foot discovered in Ethiopia more than a decade ago has now been linked to its most likely owner, and the revelation adds an important twist to the story of how our ancient relatives lived. The foot probably…...