Odd Creatures: Fossils & Ruins
July 21, 2024
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July 11, 2024 Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow between the hominin groups over the past quarter-million ...
July 11, 2024 An international research team has assembled the genome and 3D chromosomal structures of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth -- the first time such a feat has been achieved for any ancient DNA sample. ...
July 10, 2024 The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age ...
July 10, 2024 The most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a 'dinner plate', has been described in a new ...
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July 9, 2024 The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the ...
July 9, 2024 A type of extinct kangaroo that lived during the Pleistocene around two and a half million to ten thousand years ago, known as the 'giant wallaby', was a poor hopper, a study has ...
July 9, 2024 A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The new species contributes to a fuller understanding of life ...
July 3, 2024 Meet Gaiasia jennyae, the swamp creature with a toilet seat-shaped head. It lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs, and it was the top ...
July 1, 2024 Two samples from Mars together deliver clear evidence of the origin of Martian organic material. The study presents solid evidence for a prediction ...
July 1, 2024 Scientists discovered the oldest fossil grapes in the Western Hemisphere, which help show how after the death of the dinosaurs, grapes spread across ...
June 26, 2024 We often think of species as separate and distinct, but sometimes they can interbreed and create hybrids. When this happens consistently in a ...
June 28, 2024 Hydrothermal vents can be found around the world at the junctions of drifting tectonic plates. But there are many hydrothermal fields still to be ...
June 27, 2024 The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland. A new ...
June 27, 2024 Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 ...
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June 26, 2024 Researchers have identified the likeliest timeline of the famous Hellenistic-era Kyrenia shipwreck, discovered and recovered off the north coast of Cyprus in the ...
June 26, 2024 Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a ...
June 21, 2024 Some 1,000 years ago, a small band of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places -- a small, previously uninhabited island they ...
June 20, 2024 For centuries, scientists thought they knew where the griffin legend came from. A new study takes a closer look at the data and folklore's influence on ...
June 20, 2024 A new dinosaur has been identified and named. The dinosaur's name, Lokiceratops rangiformis, translates roughly to 'Loki's horned face that looks like a ...
June 18, 2024 A white wine over 2,000 years old, of Andalusian origin, is the oldest wine ever ...
June 17, 2024 An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere -- a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand's South Island. 246 million ...
June 14, 2024 New research has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the last 66 million years, before steadily declining over the last 10 million years to its lowest value in ...
June 13, 2024 The new study provides unambiguous evidence that the inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010, moving slower than the Earth's ...
June 13, 2024 Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of ...
June 12, 2024 New research has identified 100-million-year-old fossilized bones discovered in western Queensland as belonging to a newly identified species of pterosaur, which was a formidable flying reptile that ...
June 12, 2024 Rising to power in the wake of the Classic Maya collapse, Chichen Itz was among the largest and most influential cities of the ancient Maya, but much about its political connections and ritual life ...
June 12, 2024 Deposits of deep-pink sand washing up on South Australian shores shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began to subduct beneath the Pacific plate, as well as the presence of previously ...
June 11, 2024 An international scientific team has redefined our understanding of archaea, a microbial ancestor to humans from two billion years ago, by showing how they use hydrogen gas. The findings explain how ...
June 10, 2024 Astrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold, harsh interstellar clouds, a phenomenon not previously considered in geologic climate ...
June 10, 2024 An international research team has discovered the oldest known marine plant using a novel genetic clock. This 1400-year-old seagrass clone from the Baltic Sea dates back to the Migration Period. The ...
June 7, 2024 Ancient apes in Germany co-existed by partitioning resources in their environment, according to a new ...
June 5, 2024 They bedeviled ancient Greek navies, helped shipwreck Christopher Columbus, aided in the sinking of the Spanish Armada and caused the wharves in San Francisco Bay to collapse into the sea, but until ...
June 5, 2024 The identity of a prehistoric marine reptile has finally been revealed after experts discovered that some of its remains actually belonged to ...
June 5, 2024 Bronze cauldrons were used by the inhabitants of the Mongolian steppe around 2,700 years ago to process animal blood and milk. This is shown by a protein analysis of archaeological finds from this ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Almonds, Pottery, Wood Help Date Famed Kyrenia Shipwreck
- Shocked Quartz Reveals Evidence of Historical Cosmic Airburst
Friday, June 21, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- New Study Finds Dinosaur Fossils Did Not Inspire the Mythological Griffin
- Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-Like Horns
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms
- Paleontology: New Fossil Fish Genus Discovered
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- No Bones About It: 100-Million-Year-Old Bones Reveal New Species of Pterosaur
- Ritual Sacrifice at Chichén Itzá
- A Mountainous Mystery Uncovered in Australia's Pink Sands
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Monday, June 10, 2024
- The Solar System May Have Passed Through Dense Interstellar Clouds 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth's Climate
- Novel Genetic Clock Discovers Oldest Known Marine Plant
Friday, June 7, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
- Researchers Solve 2,000-Year-Old Mystery of the Shipworm
- Fishy Mystery of Marine Reptile Solved
- Blood Sausages and Yak Milk: Bronze Age Cuisine of Mongolian Nomads Unveiled
- 'Missing' Early Sea Sponges Discovered
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Food Drove the Evolution of Giraffes' Long Neck
- How Sharks Survived a Major Spike in Earth's Temperature
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Friday, May 31, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- 'Ugly' Fossil Places Extinct Saber-Toothed Cat on Texas Coast
- Origins of 'Welsh Dragons' Finally Exposed by Experts
- Local Bright Spot Among Melting Glaciers: 2000 Km of Antarctic Ice-Covered Coastline Has Been Stable for 85 Years
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- How Killifish Embryos Use Suspended Animation to Survive Over 8 Months of Drought
- Florida Fossil Porcupine Solves a Prickly Dilemma 10-Million Years in the Making
Friday, May 24, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Iconic Baobabs: The Origin and Long-Distance Travels of Upside Down Trees
- First 'warm-Blooded' Dinosaurs May Have Emerged 180 Million Years Ago
Friday, May 3, 2024
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Monday, April 29, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- These Giant, Prehistoric Salmon Had Tusk-Like Teeth
- Scientists Unveil Genetics Behind Development of Gliding
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Bioluminescence First Evolved in Animals at Least 540 Million Years Ago
- Fossil Frogs Share Their Skincare Secrets
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- First Evidence of Human Occupation in Lava Tube Cave in Saudi Arabia
- Paleontologists Unearth What May Be the Largest Known Marine Reptile
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Evolution's Recipe Book: How 'copy Paste' Errors Cooked Up the Animal Kingdom
- Even the Simplest Marine Organisms Tend to Be Individualistic
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Uncovering the Mystery of Dorset's Cerne Giant
- New Archive of Ancient Human Brains Challenges Misconceptions of Soft Tissue Preservation
Friday, March 22, 2024
- Research Uncovers a Rare Resin Fossil Find: A Spider That Aspires to Be an Ant
- Tudor Era Horse Cemetery in Westminster Revealed as Likely Resting Place for Elite Imported Animals
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Across Oceans and Millennia: Decoding the Origin and History of the Bottle Gourd
- Study Reveals 'cozy Domesticity' Of Prehistoric Stilt-House Dwellers in England's Ancient Marshland
Monday, March 18, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Fossils of Giant Sea Lizard With Dagger-Like Teeth Show How Our Oceans Have Fundamentally Changed Since the Dinosaur Era
- Fossil Named 'Attenborough's Strange Bird' Was the First in Its Kind Without Teeth
Monday, March 4, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Scientists ID Burned Bodies Using Technique Used for Extracting DNA from Woolly Mammoths, Neanderthals
- Slimming Down a Colossal Fossil Whale
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- High Resolution Techniques Reveal Clues in 3.5 Billion-Year-Old Biomass
- Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats Has Long Been in Flux
- Butterfly and Moth Genomes Mostly Unchanged Despite 250 Million Years of Evolution
- An Awkward Family Reunion: Sea Monsters Are Our Cousins
- Did Neanderthals Use Glue? Researchers Find Evidence That Sticks
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- Anthropologists' Research Unveils Early Stone Plaza in the Andes
- Some Pre-Roman Humans Were Buried With Dogs, Horses and Other Animals
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Monday, February 12, 2024
- Archaeologists Discover Oldest Known Bead in the Americas
- The Hidden Rule for Flight Feathers -- And How It Could Reveal Which Dinosaurs Could Fly
Friday, February 9, 2024
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
- DNA from Preserved Feces Reveals Ancient Japanese Gut Environment
- New Pieces in the Puzzle of First Life on Earth
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Monday, January 22, 2024
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Oldest Known Fossilized Skin Is 21 Million Years Older Than Previous Examples
- Prehistoric Person With Turner Syndrome Identified from Ancient DNA