4+ hour, 36+ min ago  (585+ words) The specimen is a single vertebra recovered from fossil-bearing sediments near Tainan, in southwestern Taiwan. It came from the Chiting Formation, a geological deposit formed roughly 800,000 to 400,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. The fossil was analyzed by Cheng-Hsiu Tsai…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (957+ words) Picture this: you're a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so wrong you assume it broke underground. Then you find another one. Same weird twist. Then another. And another....