8+ hour, 14+ min ago  (794+ words) Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science Fossils including possible baleen-whale ribs found at a depth of 5656 metres in…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (562+ words) A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger animals Arctic ground squirrels gather food from a wide variety of sources and store…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (1080+ words) Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall Physically, Homo sapiens is not that special in the animal world....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (416+ words) Coincident with the rise of the dinosaurs, a large landmass filled most of the Arctic circle, potentially contributing to global cooling that advantaged the famous reptiles By Bas den Hond Dinosaurs could survive in cold conditions, as illustrated by Beipiaosaurus,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1274+ words) A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of these long-extinct animals. Palaeontologist Dave Hone spills the secrets of how dinosaurs lived, from how social they were to how much they really fought" Hone,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (28+ words) New Scientist Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 165 million years and even now, we're still uncovering new secrets about these extraordinary animals....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (701+ words) During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest they may have been highly intelligent hunters A reconstruction of the giant octopus While dinosaurs ruled the land, Cretaceous oceans were home to a…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (362+ words) A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs" long necks began earlier than previously thought High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of palaeontologists has found a small dinosaur fossil with the first hints of…...

2+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (491+ words) A handful of plankton fossils buried in a small chunk of rock show that the oceans were teeming with life before the Late Ordovician mass extinction, the second most severe on record One of the radiolarian fossils found inside the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (538+ words) Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, which lived about 17 million years ago Artist's reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis, an ape that lived around 17 million years ago A…...