1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (781+ words) Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, teeth, vertebrae and a femur were unearthed from a cave known…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1311+ words) 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 that…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (334+ words) For nearly 50 years, "Lucy" has been one of the most famous fossils in the world. Discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis has long been seen as a key ancestor of modern humans. But new research suggests…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (430+ words) A fish species not recorded in the wild for more than 20 years was rediscovered in Bolivia, providing a boost for biodiversity. As published in the journal Nature Conservation, scientists discovered the species Moema claudiae (M. claudiae), a type of rivulidae killifish,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (312+ words) 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 plants....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (703+ words) Hundreds of yards of dinosaur tracks with toes and claws have been found in the Italian Alps in a region that will host the 2026 Winter Olympics, authorities said Tuesday. "This set of dinosaur footprints is one of the largest collections…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (320+ words) The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints, estimated at as many as 20,000 over some five kilometers (three miles), and the location near the Swiss border, once a prehistoric coastal area, that has…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (324+ words) MILAN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Italian paleontologists have uncovered thousands of dinosaur footprints on a near-vertical rock face more than 2,000 metres above sea level in "the Stelvio National Park, a discovery they say is among the world's "richest sites for the Triassic…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (44+ words) Dinosaurs of Montana is a book co-authored by Jack Horner and geologist Ray Rogers, published bythe Bureau of Mines and Geology. Dinosaurs of Montana is a book co-authored by Jack Horner and geologist Ray Rogers, published bythe Bureau of Mines…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (638+ words) Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach near the city of Darwin say the creature is now the earliest known mega-predator of the modern shark lineage, living 15 million years earlier than enormous sharks found before. And it was huge....