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Australopithecus is not a single branch of the human family tree, a point its own field has long recognised, so why does a new paper argue one fix is to fold it, Paranthropus and Kenyanthropus into an expanded genus Homo reaching back four to five million years?
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (463+ words) The proposal comes from a single-author synthesis with no new fossil in it, and its author writes that it will likely not prove widely acceptable. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Christy Suriadi Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit Most…...
Dimetrodon — the sail-backed predator routinely mistaken for a dinosaur — first appeared roughly 60 million years before the earliest dinosaurs and was actually more closely related to humans than to T. rex.
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (1080+ words) Dimetrodon lived in the Permian, before dinosaurs, and belonged to Synapsida, the same major evolutionary branch that later produced mammals. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 21, 2026 · How we edit The plastic dinosaur bin has been lying to…...
More than 10 million years ago, South America had saber-toothed mammals, terror birds and giant snakes. But fossil evidence suggests even its apex land predators could become prey near the water, where the enormous caiman Purussaurus neivensis ruled.
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (1377+ words) Four tooth pits in a terror bird's leg point to a 4.6-to-4.8-meter caiman, probably Purussaurus neivensis, but the fossil cannot distinguish a kill from scavenging. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit Four shallow…...
Crocodiles still live wild in the middle of the Sahara desert, trapped there since the desert itself used to be green
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (583+ words) A species abandoned by climate change six thousand years ago still clings to existence in Earth's harshest landscape, waiting for a rescue that may never come. By Natural History · Edited by Mal James Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit In a…...
In a Norwegian cave in 2025, scientists found 75,000-year-old bones of polar bears, walruses, and bowhead whales — and the remains of a species of lemming now extinct in Europe that had never been found in Scandinavia before
1+ week, 3+ day ago (918+ words) A 2025 PNAS study identified 46 vertebrate taxa in a northern Norwegian cave deposit, revealing a coastal Arctic community from roughly 85,000 to 71,000 years ago. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit A limestone cave near Kjøpsvik in…...
Tibetans carry a Denisovan-like DNA segment around EPAS1 that is associated with lower hemoglobin at high altitude, showing how interbreeding with an extinct human population contributed to life on the plateau
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (1020+ words) Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit At 4,000 meters above sea level, oxygen still makes up roughly the same share of the air as it does at the coast. The problem is pressure. Each breath contains fewer oxygen molecules, forcing the body…...
About 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew just 900 kilometres from the South Pole; an Antarctic seafloor core preserved its roots, pollen and spores beneath what is now a world of ice
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (882+ words) Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit A dark layer inside a sediment core from the seabed off West Antarctica contained something that should feel impossible: a dense network of fossil roots, along with pollen and spores from a temperate rainforest that…...
In 2016, someone walking past a drying pond in Thailand noticed a few strange rocks. Ten years later, those 'rocks' turned out to be a 27-metre, 27-tonne dinosaur, the largest ever found in Southeast Asia
2+ week, 2+ day ago (831+ words) A decade-long puzzle from an accidental discovery in a shrinking Thai pond reveals how patience and cross-border collaboration can overturn assumptions about where Earth's giants once roamed. Published August 9, 2026 · How we edit A village pond in north-eastern Thailand shrank in…...
In 2006 researchers dredged a clam off the coast of Iceland and prised it open to count its growth rings, and only afterwards worked out what they had done — the animal had been alive since 1499, the oldest individual creature ever recorded
2+ week, 3+ day ago (491+ words) Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The clam was one of about 200. It came up in a routine dredge off Iceland in 2006, part of a batch collected by a team from Bangor University for a project reconstructing centuries of ocean climate…...
It walked on two legs, wore a beak, and looked just like a small dinosaur — yet the creature dug from New Mexico rock lived 100 million years too early to be one, and was really a cousin of the crocodiles
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (639+ words) A crocodile relative mastered the dinosaur blueprint millions of years before dinosaurs existed, suggesting convergent evolution worked faster than we thought. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 Picture an ostrich-mimic dinosaur: long legs, a light frame, a toothless beak,…...