4+ hour, 52+ min ago  (156+ words) A new analysis of turtle shell fragments unearthed at the Paleolithic site of Neumark-Nord in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt suggests Neanderthals regularly hunted the diminutive European pond turtle. A team led by archaeologist Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from the Institute for…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (930+ words) Deep within the frozen ground of Devon Island in Canada's High Arctic, researchers found the nearly complete skeleton of a rhinoceros, Epiaceratherium itjilik, that lived there around 23 million years ago. The discovery, made by a team from the Canadian Museum…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (266+ words) At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shaped head crest and jaws bearing interlocking teeth for…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (85+ words) Interesting how man made climate change started 20, 000 years ago. Camp fires can cause earth warming? And that English channel property prices went down. And all we got was the ability to farm in Europe. Or pick berries. Really interesting when…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1166+ words) 1. 6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Combines Homo habilis Face With Homo erectus Brow The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia's Afar region, dated to between 1. 6 and 1. 5 million years…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (216+ words) MILAN (AP) " A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1004+ words) A mysterious fossil foot discovered in Ethiopia more than a decade ago has now been linked to its most likely owner, and the revelation adds an important twist to the story of how our ancient relatives lived. The foot probably…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (206+ words) According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jes's Rodr'guez and their colleagues think that scavenging for carrion was vital to the survival of early hominins. It had been previously…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (711+ words) Artist's impression of Spicomellus afer. Credit: Matt Dempsey Research on fossils reveals that ankylosaurs' iconic tail weapons evolved much earlier than scientists had previously believed. The world's most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than scientists realized" A new study published…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (321+ words) A well-preserved Caenagnathid dinosaur, affectionately known as Spike, is expected to headline Christie's inaugural "Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time" auction in London on December 11. At 68 million years old and counting, Spike is one of the most complete specimens of its…...