11+ hour, 9+ min ago  (479+ words) Mammoth Cave, recognised as the largest cave network in the world with around 676 kilometres of underground passageways, has become a major palaeontological site. The unique conditions within this subterranean environment have enabled exceptional fossil preservation, revealed during a recent inventory…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (458+ words) In Morocco, a 773,000-year-old fossil reshapes the history of human origins'Futura, Le m'dia qui explore le monde In Morocco, a 773,000-year-old fossil reshapes the history of human origins On January 7, 2026, an international research team published their analysis of the fossils…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (321+ words) The Cambrian explosion, beginning roughly 540 million years ago, is famous for the sudden appearance of major animal groups. Fossil sites such as Canada's Burgess Shale capture that dramatic surge. What came next has been harder to document, fossils from the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (128+ words) This may be the largest stegosaur ever discovered'and it surpasses everything we thought possible.Futura, Le m'dia qui explore le monde This may be the largest stegosaur ever discovered'and it surpasses everything we thought possible. As early as 1950, two enormous…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (564+ words) As a child, I dreamed of being a paleontologist, an astronaut, or a writer" and ultimately, my heart led me to geology. After years of studying to gain deep knowledge, I now share it with you, the readers of Futura!...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (320+ words) Known as the Des Cubierta Cave, this site appears to have held particular importance for Neanderthals, according to a study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Excavations uncovered 35 horned animal skulls, including those of aurochs and steppe rhinoceroses....

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (207+ words) As a result, some specimens that were previously classified as juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex have recently been reassigned to a different, smaller species known as Nanotyrannus. Similar doubts also surround the largest specimens attributed to T. rex, further complicating efforts to understand…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (466+ words) Nature still has a few tricks up her sleeve. Deep inside a Caribbean cave, scientists stumbled upon a discovery as bizarre as it is groundbreaking " a world first, sealed in stone for tens of thousands of years. It all began…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (397+ words) How did Neanderthals come to be " and how did they vanish? These two long-debated questions still lack definitive answers. For years, scientists have suspected that a loss of genetic diversity played a major role. Now, new research based on tiny…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (425+ words) The mighty mosasaurs were once thought to have ruled only the oceans " but a new discovery is rewriting that story. In North Dakota, scientists have uncovered a massive tooth lodged in the sediments of an ancient river, suggesting that some…...