9+ min ago   (578+ words) Archaeopteryx may have taken off by using two or three powerful leaps to reach the speed needed for sustained flight. With wings that could not lift high above its back and no keeled breastbone to power a modern-style launch, Archaeopteryx…...

21+ min ago   (127+ words) Chalk painting, games of NRL, learning about volcanoes and building magnetic block towers were all the rage this week. We loved the warmer weather towards the end of the week and spent lots of time outside enjoying the sunshine. On…...

28+ min ago   (68+ words) POTSDAM – Two SUNY Potsdam geoscientists have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to investigate the chemistry of ancient waters preserved in sedimentary rocks across Atlantic Canada, … SUNY Potsdam faculty awarded to study Paleosalinity of Ancient Sedimentary Rocks North Country…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (470+ words) South Africa is sitting on a gold mine of historical knowledge, but sadly, most citizens remain unaware of this precious heritage. Tap here to download the FREE Daily Sun App One such hidden gem is tucked away in the eastern…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (484+ words) An unusual growth mark in an ancient bone may help resolve a longstanding mystery surrounding the origins of mammalian reproduction. A microscopic growth mark preserved inside a 236 million-year-old fossil may help answer a longstanding question about how the ancestors of…...

9+ hour, 17+ min ago   (247+ words) In the mountainous forests of the Mae Wong National Park, in western Thailand, scientists identified a new species of lizard named Acanthosaura syrax, in homage to Rhaenyra Targaryen’s dragon in the series House of the Dragon. The discovery was published…...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago   (749+ words) Ancient genomes reveal two unknown human groups, including a 'ghost' lineage that split off 800,000 years ago. By Kevin Montien · Editorial process Mapping our evolution through hundreds of thousands of years can be like finding out you have 20 cousins you didn’t…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (651+ words) A 3D printed Megalosaurus sculpture from Jay Jay Burridge’s Dinosaurs Are Forever exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Image courtesy of Bambu Lab. Fourteen desktop 3D printers spent seven weeks producing the bones of a dinosaur that lived roughly 166 million years ago. The result…...

2+ hour, 47+ min ago   (550+ words) In southern China, researchers stumbled onto something that simply shouldn't have been there. Just a handful of bones, but enough to shake decades of certainty about how these ancient giants spread across the world. A new dinosaur discovered in southern…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago   (758+ words) The rock shelf in northeast Brazil looks like nothing much. Three toes, pressed into mud that has since turned to stone, and not one print but a walking line of them across a flat slab. The awkward part is that…...