1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (620+ words) Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago were unearthed in a Moroccan cave and are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa, representing the remains of archaic humans who may have been close ancestors…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (87+ words) [160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY)]Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden feather structures that contradict old theories on dinosaur flight. Scientists are now re-evaluating how and when animals first took to the skies. 160 million years later:…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (93+ words) [ Neanderthal communities in prehistoric Europe. How were they linked? (Illustrative) (photo credit: PIXABAY)]Research focused on human remains found at the Troisi'me caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains one of the largest known assemblages of…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (52+ words) [Dinosaur, edmontosaurus close up with open mouth. Ukraine, Khmelnitsky, October 2021. (photo credit: MVolodymyr/Shutterstock)]The dinosaur, the fossil of an Edmontosaurus, was about 66 million years old. 'Medusa', possible 'dinosaur mummy' discovered in Badlands, transferred for further research The dinosaur, the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (106+ words) [A dead garfish lies in a marsh near Venice, Louisiana May 20, 2010. For nearly a month, roughly 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) of oil per day have been gushing from BP]The garfish - long, slender, its snout filled with sharp teeth- is considered…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (85+ words) [ THE FAMOUS Victory over Japan Day kiss in Times Square, New York City, on August 14, 1945, captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The author says that a clear Israeli victory must be achieved in Gaza. (photo credit: WIKIPEDIA COMMONS)]Platonic pecks are thought…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (71+ words) [The skeleton of a Nanotyrannus lancensis is displayed as part of the ]Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus both were members of a lineage of meat-eating dinosaurs called tyrannosaurs, but were not the same genus, the researchers said. Agile and vicious Nanotyrannus was…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (61+ words) A study in Royal Society Open Science by Professor Mike Archer shows no evidence that humans hunted or butchered megafauna in the fossil record. New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction A study in…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (113+ words) [A handout illustration shows a reconstruction of the Jurassic species Breugnathair elgolensis, which possessed characteristics both of lizards and snakes, and lived 167 million years ago, based on fossils discovered in Scotland. (photo credit: MICK ELLISON/AMNH/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)]If…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (66+ words) [An artist]Joaquinraptor probably fed on plant-eating dinosaurs including juveniles of the enormous long-necked titanosaurs that populated the area, duck-billed hadrosaurs and possibly others. How mean was this new Argentine dinosaur? It had a croc leg in its jaws Joaquinraptor…...