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Fossils Discovered in Morocco Could Reveal Humanity’s True Origins
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (368+ words) Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. A new study published in Nature reinforces the idea that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. This is based on a set of fossils unearthed in a Moroccan cave that date to…...
Ancient Bees Made Nests in the Bones of Dead Rodents, Study Finds
3+ week, 12+ hour ago (438+ words) More than 5,000 years ago, bees in the Caribbean nested inside dead animals. They built their brood chambers in the hollow teeth and vertebrae of rodents buried in a cave. According to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science,…...
An Enormous Shark Ruled the Seas Before the Megalodon, Fossils Reveal
3+ week, 2+ day ago (355+ words) Tens of millions of years before the megalodon, a massive shark was running the oceans. According to new research, a previously overlooked set of fossils found near Darwin, Australia, belonged to the earliest known mega-predatory shark in the modern shark…...
World’s Largest Dinosaur Tracks Site Found in Bolivia
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (385+ words) A team of US and Bolivian researchers has revealed that the Carreras Pampa archaeological dig site in Bolivia's Torotoro National Park is the single largest dinosaur track site ever discovered. How many individual prints have to be at the site…...
Ancient Leeches Weren't Bloodsuckers—They Were Way Creepier
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (401+ words) 437 million years ago, the Midwestern suburb now known as Waukesha County, Wisconsin, was a tropical coastline. It was teeming with trilobites, early scorpions, and other prehistoric creatures. It was the Silurian period, an era that may have been the birthplace…...
Tiny New Marsupial With a Tail Longer Than Its Body Discovered in Peru
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (381+ words) Hidden in the eastern Andes, scientists stumbled on a marsupial that had never been described before. It's small, reddish-brown, and wears a natural bandit mask across its face. The animal, now named Marmosa chachapoya, is the newest member of the…...
Early Humans Weren't Apex Predators After All. They Were Eaten by Leopards—A Lot.
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (309+ words) Using an AI research tool, some researchers have found that Homo habilis may not have been as capable and powerful as previously thought. In fact, they might have been regularly eaten by leopards. Yikes. Researchers from the University of Alcal,…...
These Bone-Eating Worms Have Been Haunting the Ocean for 100 Million Years
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (305+ words) Long before anything had legs or lungs, the deep sea was full of worms burrowing into bones and turning death into dinner. A new study shows they've been doing this for at least 100 million years'maybe longer. The modern culprits belong…...
T. Rex Relatives May Have 'Moonwalked' to Attract Mates
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (330+ words) About 100 million years ago, in what is now Colorado, a bunch of horny dinosaurs gathered in a dusty open space and tried to out-dance each other to get laid. That's the takeaway from a new study published in Cretaceous Research,…...
Scientists Just Traced Tooth Pain Back to a Prehistoric Fish
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (490+ words) Ashley is a writer with 15+ years of experience, a home base in Savannah, and a habit of chasing stories across the map. Raised in the Pacific Northwest and shaped by everywhere she's lived since, her work blends cultural curiosity with…...