3+ hour, 48+ min ago   (575+ words) Researchers identified a 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in an unexpected place in northern China: inside a drill core extracted during a search for copper. Recovered from a depth of 473.2 meters in Inner Mongolia’s Yin’gen-Ejinaqi Basin, the fossil represents the first published…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (657+ words) Two miniature bird figures carved from mammoth ivory around 40,000 years ago have been discovered in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, adding rare new examples to some of the world’s earliest known figurative art. Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1159+ words) Fossil footprints preserved beside an ancient lake in northern Kenya have captured an extraordinary scene from approximately 1.43 million years ago: several large-bodied hominins walking through shallow water, possibly as part of the same social group. The tracks, discovered at the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1112+ words) The 1,800-year-old skull is the first macaque specimen from Türkiye’s archaeological record to undergo a detailed osteological examination. Its presence beside human burials and a complete dog skeleton raises the possibility that it was an exotic pet. A young macaque…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (683+ words) For decades, scientists have debated why Neanderthals vanished from the Earth roughly 40,000 years ago. Climate instability, competition with early modern humans, and limited genetic diversity have all been cited as possible causes of their extinction. One of the defining characteristics…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (781+ words) Published in Scientific Reports, the study uses advanced 3D microscopic analysis to confirm that the cut marks and fractures found on human bones were made by stone tools shortly after death. The findings strongly suggest deliberate processing of bodies for food…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (579+ words) What began as a routine rockhounding trip quickly turned into a significant scientific find, highlighting both Wyoming’s importance to paleontology and the critical role public lands play in preserving Earth’s ancient history. Touren was exploring the area with his grandparents,…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (370+ words) National Trust rangers uncovered remarkably well-preserved marine fossils embedded in a dry stone wall in central England, offering rare insight into life in prehistoric seas 340 million years ago. The fossils belong to two marine creatures known as goniatites, extinct relatives…...