16+ hour, 54+ min ago  (855+ words) Scientists report the discovery of a giant sauropod dinosaur, Tongnanlong zhimingi " Late Jurassic giant from southwestern China estimated at up to 92-feet-long. The fossil was found in Chongqing's Tongnan District, part of the Sichuan Basin, and comes from rocks laid…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (836+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in central Alaska that match the carving tradition long associated with the later Clovis culture in North America." The discovery places that technology hundreds of miles north of its classic heartland and tightens…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (913+ words) For tens of millions of years after animals first walked onto land, nearly all vertebrates were predators. Leaves, stems, and other plant foods were abundant, but early land animals largely ignored them. So when did the first backboned animals begin…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (811+ words) Fossil bones have revealed a dwarf sea cow species that grazed seagrass on the seafloor of what is now the Arabian Gulf 21 million years ago. Its discovery shows that today's dugongs inherit a far older role, reshaping coastal ecosystems in…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (863+ words) Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth's continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the brink of transformation. During the Late Triassic, it began raining and didn't stop for about two million years " an…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (740+ words) New clues from very old fish are helping scientists understand one of the biggest moments in the history of life on Earth. More than 400 million years ago, some fish began to change in small but meaningful ways. Over time, those…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (791+ words) Seed-sized crustacean fossils have revealed that seafloor species crossed the North Pacific five million years ago along active cold-water routes. That discovery reframes how ocean circulation linked Asia and North America during a warmer phase of Earth's climate. The evidence…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (856+ words) A previously unknown species of microscopic algae has been formally documented in coastal waters along India's southwestern shore. The finding redraws a small but consequential part of the biological map, revealing how much life in these dynamic margins remains unnamed…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (826+ words) A plant-eating dinosaur once thought to be a juvenile has now been confirmed as a fully grown adult, revealing a new tiny-bodied species called Foskeia pelendonum. The discovery reshapes how small dinosaurs fit into evolution, clarifying relationships across a crowded…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (864+ words) Free climbers scrambling over a steep coastal mountain in Italy noticed something odd on a broad slab of limestone. The rock sitting on the Monte Conero anticline near Ancona, in Italy's Marche region, holds many deep, paddle-like footprint tracks packed…...