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New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (419+ words) Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. "Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying which "dinosaur left…...
Rhinoceros bones among faunal remains unearthed from neolithic site near Coimbatore
1+ week, 4+ day ago (198+ words) Published - January 29, 2026 07:32 pm IST - COIMBATORE Faunal remains unearthed by archaeologists from the neolithic site at Molapalayam near Coimbatore included bones of Indian rhinoceros, suggesting the presence of the pachyderm in the southern part of the country around 3,500 years ago. The…...
Where crocodiles are family: Inside a Nubian village in Egypt
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (70+ words) A crocodile hatchling is crawling on my shirt making its way to my head. Seven-year-old Ali Mustafa nimbly picks up the reptile. He grins, rather mischievously. A few yards away, inside a well, the mother " a crocodile much bigger in…...
Scientists solve mystery of prehistoric 'Burtele Foot"
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (610+ words) Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside another closely related species during a poorly understood time in human evolution. Based…...
Science for All | New atlas reveals tiled bodies are common across life on earth
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (312+ words) Updated - November 20, 2025 12:14 pm IST Biologists and designers have long been fascinated by repeating patterns in nature, from spirals in shells to honeycombs in bees" nests. However, they have paid the most attention to patterns called "cellular foams" seen in bone…...
CCMB’s LaCONES joins global effort to decode Gibbon genomes
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (480+ words) Published - November 10, 2025 06:52 pm IST - HYDERABAD- A groundbreaking global study on gibbon genomes has revealed that the deletion of a specific 205-base pair (bp) sequence in the Sonic Hedgehog gene is responsible for the gibbons" iconic elongated limbs " perfectly adapted for…...
Humans have fingers because fish needed cloaca
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (159+ words) Updated - October 01, 2025 02:13 pm IST This similarity has been a puzzle " and one a new paper in Nature has answered. Scientists from France, Switzerland, and the US have reported that one of humans" most defining features is built on an ancient…...
Ancient humans evolved to walk on two legs in two steps
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (583+ words) Discovering the hidden steps in human pelvis development through embryonic research, shedding light on bipedal evolution mysteries....
Ice Age’s winged relic rediscovered in Western Ghats
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (297+ words) Published - August 29, 2025 08:14 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Odanatologists have reconfirmed the presence of the elusive dragonfly species, Crocothemis erythraea, in the high-elevation regions of the southern Western Ghats. The species had previously been misidentified or overlooked in this region due to its…...
Like bronze idols, India’s dino egg fossils risk being sold abroad
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (763+ words) Published - August 26, 2025 05:30 am IST - Chennai In Western India, some of the country's richest fossil beds lie inside open coal mines. It is gruelling work for palaeontologists with long days under a haze of dust, the deafening hammering of tools, and…...