8+ hour, 2+ min ago  (473+ words) In certain species, a "third eye" or parietal eye still exists to detect light, while in humans, this feature has evolved into the pineal gland. Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines " jawless fish…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (546+ words) In the world of paleontology, the biggest bones usually grab the loudest headlines. But a tiny set of fossils unearthed in northern Spain is proving that the smallest players often hide the biggest secrets. An international team of paleontologists has…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (560+ words) This discovery "solves" the puzzle by proving dinosaurs returned or persisted after the disaster. Two groundbreaking dinosaur track discoveries are changing the outdated image of the Jurassic period in South Africa; it turns out the world's ferocious prehistoric beasts continued…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (520+ words) Infant and juvenile sauropods were the primary food source for fearsome predators during the Late Jurassic period. Though they would eventually grow into the most massive titans to ever walk the Earth, adult sauropods " the iconic long-necked, long-tailed herbivores " started…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (899+ words) While lizards sleep, a slow, invisible rhythm quietly links their brains with the rest of the body. Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but quiet. Neurons pulse, blood flows, and hidden rhythms rise…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (551+ words) After 10 years of painstaking research in Kenya, scientists have finally confirmed the identity of a unique two-million-year-old H. habilis individual. A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution. Scientists once believed that our early ancestors…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (494+ words) It was a routine autopsy on a frozen canine, but the discovery was anything but ordinary." Researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics at Stockholm University have recovered a woolly rhino genome from the stomach of an Ice Age wolf." The…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (198+ words) Explore The Most Powerful Tech Event in the World with Interesting Engineering. Stick with us as we share the highlights of CES week! Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus's femoral tubercle. A group of anthropologists' new analysis…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (547+ words) One of Asia's most complete spinosaurid fossils reshapes what we know about these river-hunting dinosaurs. Fossilized remains of a giant dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago have been identified. It belongs to a 25-foot-long (seven to eight meters) dinosaur nicknamed…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (548+ words) Tiny droplets of water and microscopic bubbles of gas trapped in crystals provide a perfect record of Earth's atmosphere for 1.4 billion years. Over a billion years ago, a shallow subtropical lake in what is now Canada slowly vanished under a…...