1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (326+ words) A team that included University of Michigan researchers has excavated earliest known fossils of six modern fish groups from a site in Egypt, helping fill gaps about a key period of fish evolution from 66 million to 56 million years ago. The…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (678+ words) Washington " About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic carnivorous dinosaur. Researchers have now discovered…...

1+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (579+ words) The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swathe of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey - and perhaps even people - before going extinct around the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (75+ words) The Detroit News Scientists dig up Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur in Thailand Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (136+ words) Washington " A new analysis of a large shinbone unearthed in a remote spot in northwestern New Mexico in the 1970s shows it belongs to a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that predated that huge. .. Washington " A new analysis of a large…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (845+ words) Tel Aviv, Israel " Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100, 000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3 D mapping to study the bones of a child they believe was the result of interbreeding between the…...