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Submerged Leg Bones Suggest Denisovans May Have Stood Much Taller Than Other Hominins in Asia
5+ hour, 22+ min ago (369+ words) Learn about two leg bones from the Taiwan Strait that have shed light on the large body size of Denisovans living in ancient Asia. The proportions of the Denisovan body have been difficult to reconstruct, but the fossilized femur and…...
Dodo Skulls Shatter the Cliché of the Bird's Stupidity, Revealing New Clues About Its Behavior Before Extinction
1+ week, 1+ day ago (332+ words) Learn how brain imprints on dodo skulls suggest that the flightless bird was exceptionally active and had a great sense of smell. The extinct dodo gets a bad rap as a scatterbrained bird, but it’s not nearly as simple a…...
Fossil Skull From a Museum Drawer Reveals Obscure Saber-Toothed Cat Species With Knife-like Teeth
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (564+ words) Learn about a surprise find of an early saber-toothed cat skull in a museum drawer, revealing how the teeth of ancient cats evolved. Fossils of a saber-toothed cat that roamed North America more than 5 million years ago are helping to…...
Humans and Chimpanzees Have Surprisingly Similar Wrists — Both May Trace Back to a Knuckle-Walking Ancestor
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (618+ words) Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking roots. The human hand has evolved over millions of years to make the most of tools, while our ape cousins primarily…...
73-Million-Year-Old Teeth Reveal Three New Mammal Species That Lived in the Arctic, Among Dinosaurs
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (706+ words) Learn more about the newly identified species from the Arctic that were part of one of the longest living mammal groups on the planet. Fossilized teeth from the Prince Creek Formation in the Arctic Circle have been assigned to three…...
A New Coelacanth Species Was Hiding in a Museum for 150 Years — and It Fills a 50-Million-Year Gap
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (546+ words) Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution. A dusty fossil tucked away in a museum drawer for more than a century has transformed what scientists know about one of the…...
An Extinct Giant Echidna Roamed Ice Age Victoria, Filling a Huge Gap in its Australian Range
4+ mon, 6+ hour ago (295+ words) Learn more about a Megalibgwilia owenii fossil, found around 120 years ago, that today fleshes out the extinct echidna’s extent. In 1907, an Australian naturalist spotted a shard of a bone from the Ice Age, buried in the sediment at Buchan’s Foul…...
First Fossilized Egg From a Mammal Ancestor Confirmed After 250 Million Years
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (583+ words) Learn how X-ray imaging revealed the first fossilized egg from a mammal ancestor, showing how Lystrosaurus reproduced 250 million years ago. In 2008, a small rock nodule revealed only a few flecks of bone. As the rock was chipped away, a perfectly…...
18-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil From Egypt Suggests Modern Apes Originated Outside East Africa
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (561+ words) Learn how an Early Miocene ape fossil from Egypt is changing theories about ape evolution and the origins of modern apes. In a stretch of desert north of Cairo, a small fragment of jawbone is forcing a rethink of where…...
Mammoth Cave Was Once Home to Ancient Sharks — and the Evidence Is in the Walls
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (667+ words) Learn more about the ancient life that used to inhabit Mammoth Cave, and how the cave conditions were just right to help preserve some of these remains. Clocking in at 426 miles, Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest cave system....