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A prehistoric show 165 million years in the making migrates to Colorado Springs
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (192+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - A scene straight out of Jurassic Park, the traveling "Dinosaur Adventure" exhibit rolls into the Colorado Springs Event Center this weekend. Professional entertainers Christopher Plankut and Roy Jones give KRDO 13's Bradley Davis an exclusive look…...
Fossils unearthed in Morocco are first from little-understood period of human evolution
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (782+ words) (CNN) " Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, teeth, vertebrae and a femur were unearthed from a cave…...
This tiny ancient fish only lives between two waterfalls in one river. It’s now under threat
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (1386+ words) Brisbane, Australia (CNN) " Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that's been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and emerging at night to…...
The year human evolution’s greatest mystery got a face
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (1312+ words) (CNN) " Human evolution's biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the scientific community in 2010, when it revealed a previously unknown human population…...
Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior
3+ week, 2+ day ago (303+ words) (CNN) " Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species " about 90% " are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or within rotting logs and the stems of…...
Mystery foot fossil belonged to a little-known species that lived alongside Lucy
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (999+ words) (CNN) " Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been linked to a little-known species that was a…...
Scientists document over 16,000 footprints in the world’s most extensive dinosaur tracksite
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (920+ words) (CNN) " A high-traffic "dinosaur freeway" may have once stretched across a shoreline in what is now Bolivia. Traveling along this busy route were theropods " three-toed, bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs, which left behind thousands of fossil footprints. Paleontologists have now described their…...
A new analysis suggests kissing on the lips may have evolved 21 million years ago
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (651+ words) (CNN) " A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back 21 million years. Humanity's earliest kisses were recorded 4,500 years…...
Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (614+ words) By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) " Scientists say they have unearthed Australia's oldest known crocodile eggshells, a discovery that could shed light on ancient reptiles that may have hunted prey by dropping on them from trees. The eggshells belonged to mekosuchine…...
Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (1167+ words) (CNN) " Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their fossils. But new research may bring scientists closer to identifying the sex of one group of dinosaur. Hadrosaurs, also known as duck-billed dinosaurs,…...