Evidence of Ancient Sharks Found Buried in the Egyptian Desert
Millions of years ago, marine life flourished in waters that spread across what is now Egypt’s Western Desert.…
‘Earliest evidence’ of elephant butchery at Olduvai Gorge shared in new study
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Elephants are widely adored by many people today — but…
1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Giant Human Relative
One of the large, 1.4-million-year-old footprints that the team excavated. A 6-inch (~15 cm) ruler is shown for…
567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils…
The “Hobbits” Mysteriously Disappeared 50,000 Years Ago – Scientists Have Revealed What Happened to Their Home
Homo floresiensis skull. Credit: Shutterstock A long drought on Flores may have helped drive Homo floresiensis and its…
Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature
Scientists believe that Earth’s earliest life included ancient forms of crinoids, or the relatives of modern starfish. Crinoid…
11-year-old UK boy finds 1.8M-year-old elephant tooth on beach in wild coincidence
An 11-year-old English boy recently stumbled onto a 1.8 million-year-old fist-sized tooth from a now-extinct elephant while walking…
A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus gigas. Credit: Franz Anthony Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may…
Scientists Discover the Oldest Known Fossils of Humans’ Closest Invertebrate Relatives
A deuterostome cambroernid fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota (~554-539mya), plus artist’s reconstruction (scale bar: 2mm). Credit: Gaorong Li…
World’s Largest ‘Whale Graveyard’ Teems with Deep-Sea Life Including Species Unknown to Science
Images of whale remains and the community of creatures that live on them – credit, Zhou et al.…
Boy Finds 2 Million-year-old Tooth From Elephant Ancestor on Beach Walk
Mom holds Anancus arvernensis molar found on beach –SWNS An 11-year-old boy made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery after finding…
Global Warming Is Tinkering With Time
You can’t feel it, but Earth’s spin is easing off the gas. The Wall Street Journal reports the…