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Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making
12+ hour, 40+ min ago (241+ words) Almost all of these tiny organisms vanished way back in the early Cretaceous period 3:00 PM CDT on July 30, 2026 Ocean acidification was considered a likely culprit. When foraminifera are living in favorable, non-acidic conditions, they build their shells more quickly. Declining…...
Did Ancient Humans Prefer Hunting Female Mammoths?
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (367+ words) Female or not, mammoths were definitely key to their survival 10:01 AM CDT on July 30, 2026 Multiple lines of evidence point to Late Paleolithic human harvest of mammoths—from embedded stone projectile points to cut marks and fractures on mammoth bones associated…...
Mysterious Human Relative Was Bigger Than Previously Thought
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (178+ words) Paranthropus boisei footprints offer clues to their size and social dynamics 5:00 PM CDT on July 27, 2026 According to a detailed analysis of the footprints conducted by an international team of researchers, the hominins were taller and heavier than previously believed. “The…...
Small, Cheap, and Full of Teeth: Baby Tyrannosaurs Were Plentiful and Precocious
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (218+ words) Cat-sized tyrannosaur hatchlings had lots and lots of siblings 1:00 PM CDT on July 16, 2026 “Going through museum collections, my colleagues and I have discovered the first remains of hatchling tyrannosaurs,” study author Nick Longrich of the University of Bath said in…...
Do Fossils Belong in Mansions or Museums?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (339+ words) The record sale of a T. rex skeleton begs the question 5:07 PM CDT on July 14, 2026 This morning an as-yet unknown buyer paid a cool $50 million for one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found. $50,130,000 to be exact…...
How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive
2+ week, 2+ day ago (213+ words) Today’s T. rex auction could be cause for concern 2:00 PM CDT on July 14, 2026 Have you ever wanted to own a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton? The going rate is now over $50 million after Sotheby’s auction house sold “Gus,” a 38-foot long T....
This Prehistoric Giant Salamander Grew to Almost 4 Feet Long
2+ week, 3+ day ago (183+ words) And it has a living relative 6:00 PM CDT on July 13, 2026 Growing up to 5 feet long, the Japanese giant salamander is among the largest amphibians living today. Now it’s got a new extinct cousin, according to a recent study published in…...
The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws
3+ week, 1+ day ago (213+ words) The science behind nature’s different puncture tools 1:01 PM CDT on July 8, 2026 With “puncture” defined as “the use of a sharpened tool to penetrate a target while the target remains intact,” the study authors plotted shape against performance for 143 natural structures…...
This Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish May Be the Key to Understanding Brain Evolution
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (279+ words) Its life in the darkness could shine a light on other neural rewiring 11:00 AM CDT on July 2, 2026 If a population of humans were to move entirely into dark, underground caves, you’d expect to see changes in their behavior. They’d favor…...
Inside the Brain of a 319-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (231+ words) It paves the way for understanding how ray-finned fishes came to dominate Earth’s oceans 4:00 PM CDT on June 29, 2026 How the family tree of these early ray-finned fishes emerged to ultimately yield the huge variety of species we see today, however,…...