3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (647+ words) In an artist's recreation, "Spinosaurus mirabilis' stands along the river's edge over its prey some 95 million years ago. (CREDIT: Dani Navarro) A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (873+ words) Researcher at the site of "Ubeidiya. It lies three km south of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) on what is today the flanks of the western escarpment of the Jordan Valley. (CREDIT: University of Tulsa) When a stone sits…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (846+ words) Seishiro Tada (left) standing next to an awe-inspiring Triceratops skull, with its enormous nasal cavity visible at the front. (CREDIT: 2026 Tada et al. CC-BY-ND) The skull of Triceratops looks almost exaggerated, as if someone enlarged the front half without adjusting…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1103+ words) Arjan Mann with a 3D-printed replica of Tyrannoroter's skull in the Carboniferous coal forest display at Chicago's Field Museum. (CREDIT: Field Museum) Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (798+ words) The species, known scientifically as Homo neanderthalensis, has been debated for more than a century. (CREDIT: Advances in Archaeological Practice) Over the past 40 years, phones and computers have turned into the world's largest library. Answers now arrive in seconds. With…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1127+ words) New research reveals baby sauropods fed Jurassic predators and shaped one of Earth's most famous dinosaur ecosystems. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) About 150 million years ago, the land that is now the western United States was alive…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (657+ words) Dinosaur footprints outnumber bones, but they are hard to interpret. A new AI study reveals how machine learning can help identify who made them. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Skeletons provide an incredible amount of detail regarding a dinosaur's structure and how that…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (780+ words) In the foreground, two Bakiribu waridza feed in a lake environment while, in the background, Irritator pursues other specimens. (CREDIT: Julio Lacerda) "This was very unexpected, because fossils from the Araripe region have been studied for decades and almost 30 types…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (947+ words) Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) This discovery supports the notion that early hominins utilized elephant bones for more than just food. They were used as tools in the process of creating stone tools through…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1110+ words) Homo habilis " forensic facial reconstruction/approximation. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what…...