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Paleontologists Discovered a New 40-Foot-Long Dino Species. They Call It the 'Hell Heron."
7+ hour, 15+ min ago (388+ words) The remains of the fearsome Spinosaurus mirabilis have been waiting for eons to be discovered in a Sahara Desert fossil bed. Researchers working in the central Sahara Desert have unearthed stunning fossilized remains of a previously-unknown dinosaur'and it's not your…...
Scientists Discovered the Oldest Clothing in Human History
2+ week, 3+ day ago (662+ words) Two sewn-together animal hides constituted vintage fashion from the Ice Age. This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. It's no surprise that humans living during the last Ice Age needed to stay warm. It comes as more of a…...
Scientists Discovered Evolution Went Into Overdrive Right After the Death of the Dinos
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (311+ words) The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth'but also fascinating new life. " Scientists discovered that life rebounded at extraordinary speed after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, with new plankton species evolving in…...
These Bizarre Fossils Have Baffled Scientists for Years. Now, Experts Have Cracked the Case.
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (35+ words) Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn't still be around for us to look at today. Organisms lacking hard shells and bones rarely get preserved in the fossil ......
Scientists Discovered the Origin of Human Ears in the Skull of an Ancient Creature
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (306+ words) While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn't yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed. If you put a pair of headphones on one of the earliest creatures resembling mammals, would it…...
Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact
3+ mon, 5+ hour ago (333+ words) It's an unprecedented look into prehistoric anatomy. We know what fossils look like. For example, typical dinosaur fossils are bones turned to stone and preserved from the passage of time located, if we're particularly lucky, in large collections that can…...
Scientists Discovered Humans Are Still Actively Evolving
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (177+ words) In the mountains of Tibet, adaptations to punishing conditions, including higher oxygen levels and unique gene proteins, are recent evidence of evolutionary adaptations. Endless mountain expanses that seem to pierce the heavens make Tibet one of the most breathtaking places…...
Scientists Discovered a New Human Species That Defies Conventional Wisdom
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (322+ words) Welcome to the family. Although only one species of hominin (a tribe of the subfamily Homininae) exists on the planet today'good ole Homo sapiens'the human family, throughout more geologically-recent Earth history, was comprised of a complex tableaux of members. And…...
Scientists Analyzed 8,500-Year-Old Remains—And Discovered a Lost Human Population
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (283+ words) An ancient group from central Argentina held on to their DNA, even with the exchange of culture and language. "[Our findings suggest] that the ancestry component represented by [the Jes's Mar'a individual] is the main Native American lineage in the…...
Scientists Found a Never-Before-Seen Creature Inside 110-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Puke
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (337+ words) About 110 million years ago, two pterosaurs were probably wandering around the shore when they were snapped up by a hungry predator'one which apparently couldn't hold them down. Even the most ferocious dinosaurs sometimes bit off more than they could chew…...