1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (789+ words) A crab-like body has evolved at least five separate times in ten-legged crustaceans, and scientists keep finding the same pattern. Researchers in Germany compared crab-shaped groups with their relatives, looking for clues about why evolution repeats itself. Their work suggests…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (860+ words) A routine day of mapping rocks in West Texas changed when geologist Jason W. Ricketts noticed strange bone fragments. The fragments turned out to belong to Tenontosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the region about 115 million years ago. The new fossils…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (837+ words) Millions of years before modern Britain took shape, snakes moved across a warm and humid landscape filled with forests, rivers, and wetlands. Fossils from southern England now reveal one such snake, hidden in museum drawers for decades. Careful study has…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (685+ words) Walking upright marks a major turning point in human evolution. Standing and moving on two legs changed how early ancestors searched for food, escaped danger, and explored new landscapes. For many years, scientists argued about when upright walking first appeared....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (843+ words) When people imagine giant dinosaurs like Diplodocus, dull grey or brown skin often comes to mind. This idea comes from a lack of evidence, not from direct proof. Dinosaur skin rarely survives fossilization, and color fades long before their bones…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (820+ words) Two dinosaur eggs, each about five inches (13 centimeters) across and almost perfectly round, have surprised scientists in eastern China. Instead of fragile shells packed with embryonic bone, the fossil eggs were hollow cavities stuffed with glittering mineral crystals. The work…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (862+ words) New species are still being added to the tree of life " not only from remote field sites, but also from museum drawers, where specimens have waited for better tools and new questions. In 2025, researchers at the American Museum of Natural…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (940+ words) In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The "Little Foot," fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves in 1998, has long been treated as a marquee member of the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (792+ words) Modern sightings of living coelacanths in the 20th century surprised the world, but this fish species" story goes back a long way. Although coelacanth remains are well known from Paleozoic and Cretaceous rocks in Britain, very little is known about their…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1079+ words) For more than a century, the Cambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon were considered old news, having been carefully mapped, named, and neatly slotted into geology textbooks. But a closer look at those same rocks has uncovered tiny fossil animals…...