11+ hour, 24+ min ago  (276+ words) You may have walked through the antiquity wing of a museum and noticed a surprisingly consistent pattern. Almost all archaic Greek statues share the same pose, standing straight up like a board with their gaze fixed directly ahead and their…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (490+ words) A fossil stored in a museum collection for more than a century has revealed that giant echidnas once lived in Victoria, expanding their known range across Australia. The specimen belongs to Owen's giant echidna, known scientifically as Megalibgwilia owenii. This…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (458+ words) A fossilized egg containing a 250-million-year-old embryo has provided the first direct evidence that early mammal ancestors known as therapsids laid eggs, resolving a long-standing scientific debate. Researchers say the specimen belongs to Lystrosaurus, a plant-eating animal that lived around…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (418+ words) Two researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have uncovered fossil remains of Ice Age animals inside a submerged cave in Central Texas. The find is offering rare insight into the region's prehistoric life. John Moretti and John Young…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (423+ words) Scientists have reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human who lived about 16, 000 years ago, using a well-preserved skull found in a cave in southern China. The project gives a rare glimpse into what people in the region may have looked…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (440+ words) A small, unremarkable island off the coast of Fiji has turned out to be something scientists had never documented in this part of the Pacific. Researchers say it is an island formed entirely from shellfish left behind by communities that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (652+ words) A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China is pushing back the known origins of animals, offering new insight into how complex life first emerged on Earth. Researchers say the fossils show that many major animal groups evolved earlier than…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (439+ words) Scientists have identified a new dinosaur species in Korea for the first time in 15 years, adding a notable entry to the country's thin skeletal fossil record. The animal, named Doolysaurus huhmini, was a small, two-legged plant-eater that lived between 113 million…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (360+ words) A fish fossil from millions of years ago was accidentally discovered at the Samaria Gorge on Crete in Greece. It is well known that Crete was once submerged beneath the waters of a prehistoric sea, as evidenced by the numerous…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (36+ words) Chinese scientists have identified fossil remains of freshwater fish dating back about 15 million years in northwest China, offering new evidence that the interior of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau once. .. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology...