3+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1312+ words) (CNN) " Human evolution's biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the scientific community in 2010, when it revealed a previously unknown human population…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (303+ words) (CNN) " Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species " about 90% " are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or within rotting logs and the stems of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (999+ words) (CNN) " Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been linked to a little-known species that was a…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago  (920+ words) (CNN) " A high-traffic "dinosaur freeway" may have once stretched across a shoreline in what is now Bolivia. Traveling along this busy route were theropods " three-toed, bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs, which left behind thousands of fossil footprints. Paleontologists have now described their…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (651+ words) (CNN) " A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back 21 million years. Humanity's earliest kisses were recorded 4,500 years…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (614+ words) By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) " Scientists say they have unearthed Australia's oldest known crocodile eggshells, a discovery that could shed light on ancient reptiles that may have hunted prey by dropping on them from trees. The eggshells belonged to mekosuchine…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1167+ words) (CNN) " Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their fossils. But new research may bring scientists closer to identifying the sex of one group of dinosaur. Hadrosaurs, also known as duck-billed dinosaurs,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1024+ words) (CNN) " A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat " an epic meeting of two of the world's favorite dinosaurs: Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex. Or so paleontologists thought....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (600+ words) (CNN) " Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that Australia's First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, collecting bones and transporting them over great distances. In…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (692+ words) By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) " In the badlands of eastern Wyoming, the Lance Formation is a trove of prehistoric fossils. And one area in particular " a region less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) across " has provided scientists with at least half a…...