12+ hour, 36+ min ago   (557+ words) The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal's complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14,400 years....

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (329+ words) New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like Neanderthals. Around 770,000 years ago, a small windswept cave overlooked grassy plains and trees in what today is southwest Casablanca in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (512+ words) A handful of unique fossils are spilling the secrets of dinosaur courtship and reproduction." Bertozzo's Olorotitan discovery revived the notion. The broken bones could be the long-sought evidence of how dinosaurs mated. Paleontologists have never doubted that dinosaurs copulated just…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (409+ words) A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. "This was not just a fossil concretion containing a new species of a rare type of pterosaur,…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (230+ words) Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil's age with stunning accuracy. Eggs laid by dinosaurs have provided paleontologists with a new way to tell prehistoric time. By looking to radioactive minerals taken up by eggshells in the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (790+ words) In Switzerland's Jura Mountains, ancient limestone holds thousands of dinosaur footprints. A gravel route traces their path across ridges, valleys, and 150 million years of history. We spot the first cliff early in the morning. The summer sun rises slowly, its…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1042+ words) Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline'and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Around 66 million years ago, during the Northern Hemisphere's spring, a six-mile-wide asteroid struck what is now the Yucat'n Peninsula....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (302+ words) A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become "mummies" and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. The findings add to previous research that has revealed Edmontosaurus had a fleshy comb on their heads, front…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1830+ words) In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey'son of Louis and Mary Leakey'recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus boisei), the same species his parents had found a decade earlier. In fairness, I must give…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (359+ words) Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults who never outgrew their fossil fascination, the Canadian province of Alberta offers a chance to explore the truth behind the…...