2+ hour, 8+ min ago  (693+ words) BANGKOK: Thailand has gained a new place on the global dinosaur map after researchers identified a new species of long-necked sauropod from Kalasin province, a discovery that adds fresh weight to the scientific importance of the north-east's fossil-rich landscape. The…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (253+ words) BANGKOK (AFP): Scientists have identified a massive new dinosaur from remains discovered in Thailand, with the creature estimated to have weighed as much an nine adult elephants. The long-necked herbivore stretched 27 metres (88 feet) and weighed about 27 tonnes, according to a…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (254+ words) CANBERRA: Thick tooth enamel helped kangaroos chart an unconventional evolution story, compared to herbivores on other continents, an Australian study has found. The study, published in Science, analysed fossilised kangaroo teeth spanning millions of years and found that kangaroos, the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (631+ words) Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the first mass extinction of the animal world. The…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (400+ words) IPOH: A fossil, believed to be that of a porcupine dating back 10, 000 years, previously embedded in a cave wall at Gua Matsoorat near here, has gone missing, raising concerns about the protection of geological heritage sites. Experienced guide, volunteer, explorer,…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (553+ words) WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Footprints are among the most "common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort "of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (198+ words) Sunday, 11 Jan 2026 BEIJING: Global researchers recently made new progress in the systematics and evolutionary diversity of Mesozoic ginkgoalean plants, according to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research, conducted by the institute…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (210+ words) Sunday, 14 Dec 2025 LHASA, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- A new fish species has been discovered in Zayul County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, providing insights for studies of fish diversity and biological evolution in the Himalayan area, said the Institute of Plateau Biology…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (594+ words) Saturday, 18 Oct 2025 (Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human relative dating to 1. 52 million years ago, revealing that this species would have been able to grasp and…...

9+ mon, 6+ day ago  (390+ words) Friday, 03 Oct 2025 by Xinhua writers Hua Hongli, Lucas Liganga DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The world is mourning Jane Goodall, the renowned ethologist, primatologist, and conservationist, who died Wednesday at 91. Her pioneering research in Tanzania's Gombe National Park reshaped scientific…...