4+ hour, 27+ min ago  (740+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (290+ words) A "baseball-sized" bone discovered in Spain may have belonged to one of famed Carthaginian general Hannibal's war elephants, according to a new study published in the February edition of Journal of Archaeological Science. The finding represents the first elephant skeletal…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (344+ words) Full-body CT scans were performed on two mummified ancient Egyptian priests by radiologists from Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), as part of the effort to understand more about the day-to-day life of ancient Egyptians." Both the…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (559+ words) About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal - meat from a woolly rhinoceros - shortly before dying on the harsh Ice Age landscape of northeastern Siberia. In a first, researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (620+ words) Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago were unearthed in a Moroccan cave and are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa, representing the remains of archaic humans who may have been close ancestors…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (87+ words) [160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY)]Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden feather structures that contradict old theories on dinosaur flight. Scientists are now re-evaluating how and when animals first took to the skies. 160 million years later:…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (93+ words) [ Neanderthal communities in prehistoric Europe. How were they linked? (Illustrative) (photo credit: PIXABAY)]Research focused on human remains found at the Troisi'me caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains one of the largest known assemblages of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (52+ words) [Dinosaur, edmontosaurus close up with open mouth. Ukraine, Khmelnitsky, October 2021. (photo credit: MVolodymyr/Shutterstock)]The dinosaur, the fossil of an Edmontosaurus, was about 66 million years old. 'Medusa', possible 'dinosaur mummy' discovered in Badlands, transferred for further research The dinosaur, the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (106+ words) [A dead garfish lies in a marsh near Venice, Louisiana May 20, 2010. For nearly a month, roughly 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) of oil per day have been gushing from BP]The garfish - long, slender, its snout filled with sharp teeth- is considered…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (85+ words) [ THE FAMOUS Victory over Japan Day kiss in Times Square, New York City, on August 14, 1945, captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The author says that a clear Israeli victory must be achieved in Gaza. (photo credit: WIKIPEDIA COMMONS)]Platonic pecks are thought…...