5+ hour, 3+ min ago  (401+ words) "It was the largest predator in that ecosystem, more so than lions and hyenas." Among the likely hazards in early human Lucy's East African habitat was a newly identified crocodile species, scientists say, adding a new detail to the world…...

8+ hour, 57+ min ago  (303+ words) The recovery took years and required cooperation across borders. A rare dinosaur skeleton finally made its way home after being illegally smuggled out of Mongolia two decades ago. After years of effort, officials said a Tarbosaurus bataar skeleton and dozens…...

14+ hour, 3+ min ago  (415+ words) Researchers studying fossils from Spain have identified a prehistoric "bear-dog" that offers new clues about the evolution of some of the ancient world's leading predators. Recovered near Barcelona, the animal dates to about 15. 9 million years ago and appears to rank…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (438+ words) Because this fingerprint turned up in both Siberia and South China, the team interprets it as evidence of a worldwide shift rather than a change confined to one region. A clue preserved in ancient rocks suggests that mountains rising from…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (466+ words) "Scientists have found these weird, broken-up clusters of bird bones at this site, and we didn't know what made them." A newly identified dinosaur from northwestern China is drawing attention for looking like something out of science fiction. Researchers say…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (391+ words) "This is huge. I cannot believe it." A paleontologist and Tik Tok creator is drawing attention online after sharing a fossil mystery that emerged during a mosasaur excavation in New Mexico. What started as the recovery of a giant marine…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (331+ words) As the creator put it, a "hidden highway" appeared " a network of subsurface waterways that may have allowed the fish to spread underground for millions of years before becoming isolated, eventually evolving into separate species. A Tik Tok video about…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (535+ words) "Direct evidence that relatives of sharks today fed on these whales." A shark tooth lodged in a whale skull for roughly 5 million years is offering scientists a startling glimpse of what the North Sea once looked like, as well as…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (318+ words) "We've shaped their whole species." Pigeons may be familiar sights in city life, but new archaeological evidence suggests their relationship with humans began far earlier than scientists once thought. According to Smithsonian Magazine, bones found in Cyprus indicate that people…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (438+ words) Once scientists inspected the bones more thoroughly, they realized what they actually were. What for decades looked like a remarkable woolly mammoth discovery in Alaska has turned into an even stranger scientific mystery. Researchers say fossilized backbones " not a complete…...