23+ hour, 27+ min ago  (288+ words) Sotheby's has valued a T. rex fossil known as Gus at $30 million ahead of Tuesday's annual auction. The specimen could become the most expensive dinosaur ever sold. The fossil was discovered in Badlands country in South Dakota and lived around 67 million…...

3+ mon, 23+ hour ago  (638+ words) The embryo fossil at the center of this finding is more than an old curiosity from South Africa’s Karoo Basin. It has become a direct window into how early mammal ancestors reproduced at a moment when the fossil record had…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (548+ words) Bassyonni 8 Apr 2026 For 26 years, a fossil from Illinois carried a reputation far larger than the rock that held it. Now, a fresh look inside the fossil has changed that story: the specimen once celebrated as the world’s oldest octopus is…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (439+ words) The word octopus has now shifted from a record-breaking label to a test case for how science revises its own history. A 300-million-year-old fossil once treated as the oldest known octopus has been reidentified, and the change matters because it…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (201+ words) The M27 burial is being highlighted as the most prominent find among a broader group of Dawenkou Culture graves at Wangzhuang. Zhu Guanghua, associate professor at Capital Normal University and a lead architect on the excavation, said, “The latest discovery indicates…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (788+ words) What looks like empty seabed is now yielding a biological archive. Beneath the north sea, researchers have extracted genetic traces from marine sediments that reconstruct Doggerland—once a landmass linking Britain to mainland Europe—as a surprisingly wooded, potentially resource-rich…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (374+ words) The recent decision to ban certain paleontologists linked to Jeffrey Epstein from attending the upcoming DinoCon exemplifies the scientific community’s grappling with its ties to a notorious sex offender. With the release of partial Epstein files highlighting connections to researchers…...