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The largest dinosaur ever found in Southeast Asia was hiding in plain sight near a pond in northeastern Thailand " mistaken for ordinary rocks until researchers confirmed it as a 27-tonne, 27-metre sauropod
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (562+ words) Space Daily The bone was taller than the man standing beside it. That was the first real clue that the weathered shapes at the edge of a communal pond in Chaiyaphum province, in northeastern Thailand, were not stones. A local…...
In the summer of 1858, a lesser-known 35-year-old naturalist named Alfred Russel Wallace mailed Charles Darwin a 20-page letter from the Indonesian jungle outlining the theory of evolution by natural selection " a theory Darwin had been quietly developing for 20 years without publishing " forcing Darwin to hastily share the credit with a man he had never met
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In December 1938 a museum curator sifting through a fisherman's catch in a South African port lifted out a heavy blue fish that science had known only from fossils and presumed extinct since the age of the dinosaurs
3+ week, 3+ day ago (526+ words) On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer took a taxi to the docks at East London, a port on South Africa's east coast, to look through a trawler's discarded catch. Published June 17, 2026 The fish was a coelacanth. Its discovery is one of the…...
The narwhal's spiraled tusk is actually an inside-out canine tooth packed with roughly 10 million nerve endings, and field studies in Nunavut have filmed the animals using it to stun Arctic cod with sharp downward strikes before swallowing them whole
1+ mon, 7+ hour ago (1184+ words) In the cold green water off Tremblay Sound in Nunavut, a male narwhal lifts a two-meter ivory spike out of the slush, swings it sideways, and cracks down on an Arctic cod with a precise tap that leaves the fish…...
Seventy-three million years ago birds were nesting in the Arctic alongside dinosaurs and the same seasonal instinct that fills it every spring was already working then
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Fossils found in Scotland just pushed back the origin of land-walking animals by 14 million years and placed them in a stretch of the fossil record where nothing was supposed to exist
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Zealandia, the submerged continent geologists confirmed in 2017, is 94 percent underwater and stretches nearly two million square miles beneath the South Pacific, yet its modern name was quietly proposed by geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk in 1995
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (43+ words) In 1995, geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk proposed calling the submerged landmass around New Zealand a single name: Zealandia. Twenty-two years later, a team led by Nick Mortimer formally confirmed it as Earth's eighth continent, 94 percent of it hidden beneath the South Pacific....
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky " and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.
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Complex animal life may be 10 million years older than scientists thought " and a new fossil site in northwestern Canada suggests it all started in the deep sea, not the shallow waters where most early fossils show up
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1144+ words) Space Daily A new fossil discovery, published on May 20, 2026, in the journal Science Advances, has, on close examination, given the wider research community reason to revise this framing. The discovery, from a remote site in the Mackenzie Mountains of Canada's…...