A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in…
Ancient DNA Rewrites the Story of the “American Cheetah”
An artistic rendering of Miracinonyx. Credit: Julius Csotony The “American cheetah” may have looked built for speed, but…
The Human Family Tree May Need a Major Rewrite
New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years…
New Dinosaur Discovery in Zimbabwe: Mini-sauropod That May Have Been Bipedal
On the shores of the fake lake Kariba, a reservoir straddling the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, another…
Scientists discover creature ‘beyond imagination’ encased in 99 million-year-old amber
We know dinosaurs were around 99 million years ago, but now new research has identified a kind of…
Inside the strange physics of why time stops at the speed of light
A clock aboard a fast-moving spacecraft does not break, lag or malfunction. It ticks normally for everyone inside.…
New Zimbabwe dinosaur fossil reveals 210-million-year-old species
Scientists have announced the discovery of a new 210-million-year-old dinosaur species in Zimbabwe, a finding that is expected…
This 518-Million-Year-Old Creature Reveals How Spiders Got Their Bite
Artist’s impression of Urokodia. Credit: Xiaodong Wang Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan University identified an…
Mystery Bones Found in Japan Belong to a Giant Salamander Unlike Any Known
A reconstruction of the Ajimu giant salamander, which is believed to have inhabited the lakes and marshes of…
Stanford Scientists Solve a 252-Million-Year-Old Mass Extinction Mystery
Representative samples of the modern fauna (left three samples) and the Paleozoic fauna (right four samples). Credit: Sarah…
A New Approach for Paleontologists When Identifying Vertebrae Fossils?
Newswise — STONY BROOK, NY, July 16, 2026 – Fossil finds are exciting moments that sometimes introduce the…
Ocean warming has been shrinking marine animals for 450 million years, massive study reveals |
Marine animals do not just struggle when ocean temperatures spike, they actually shrink, and a massive new study…