7+ hour, 11+ min ago   (648+ words) Published Jan 9, 2026 2:00 PM EST About 445 million years ago, our planet completely changed. Massive glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, sucking up sea water like an icy sponge. Now called the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), Earth's first major mass extinction…...

9+ hour, 11+ min ago   (825+ words) Archaeologists working in a cave in northern Vietnam have identified what they describe as the oldest known case of one ... [A man was struck by a stone projectile 12,000 years ago, survived for months, and his skeleton has just told the…...

9+ hour, 46+ min ago   (428+ words) Learn how fossil evidence shows that ceratopsians lived across Europe during the Late Cretaceous, challenging long-held assumptions about where horned dinosaurs evolved. Horned dinosaurs lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous, despite being thought largely absent from the continent's fossil…...

11+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1080+ words) Greenland sharks can live for up to 400 years " so it's possible that some sharks alive today may have been born before the British colonised Australia. (Wikimedia: Hemming1952, Greenland shark, CC BY SA 4.0) Swimming at a crawl with cloudy eyes and mottled…...

12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (870+ words) The Age of Fishes began with mass death'EurekAlert! A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction event…...

12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (600+ words) Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on the planet. Past mass extinctions, as devastating as they are, have shaped the vast biodiversity of today's Earth…...

14+ hour, 23+ min ago   (505+ words) A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago. Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely…...

14+ hour, 41+ min ago   (595+ words) Remains of an early human ancestor from a critically important period in our evolutionary history have been found in Morocco. Dated back 700,000 years using precise geo-magnetic methods, the assemblage of jawbones and teeth may come from the epoch during which…...

15+ hour, 14+ min ago   (464+ words) Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the moment they encountered this snake in the wild. In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a newfound anaconda species in the…...

16+ hour, 1+ min ago   (600+ words) The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone is "beyond convincing" evidence this ape was bipedal. The discovery of a never-before-seen bump on the leg bone…...