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July 26, 2024
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July 24, 2024 — A study looks at the maximum possible sizes of dinosaurs, using the carnivore, Tyrannosaurus rex, as an example. Using computer modelling, experts produced estimates that T. Rex might have been 70% heavier than what the fossil evidence ...
July 16, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their ...
July 15, 2024 — One of the most important controversies about human evolution and expansion is when and by what route the first hominids arrived in Europe from the African continent. Now, geological dating ...
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 ...
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July 26, 2024 — Lampreys are one of only two living jawless vertebrates Jaws are formed by a key stem cell population called the neural crest New research reveals the gene regulatory changes that may explain ...
July 25, 2024 — Danish Tycho Brahe was most famous for his contributions to astronomy. However, he also had a well-equipped alchemical laboratory where he produced ...
July 25, 2024 — A new study finds disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier ...
July 24, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that the serrated edges of Komodo dragons' teeth are tipped with iron. The study gives new insight into how Komodo dragons keep their teeth razor-sharp and may provide ...
July 24, 2024 — Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' ...
July 24, 2024 — A new analysis of rocks thought to be at least 2.5 billion years old helps clarify the chemical history of Earth's mantle -- the geologic layer ...
July 23, 2024 — Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils ...
July 23, 2024 — Archaeological evidence from the world-famous Mesolithic site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire has shown that hunter-gatherers likely kept an orderly ...
July 22, 2024 — Research reveals that Earth's largest iron ore deposits -- in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia -- are about one billion years younger than ...
July 19, 2024 — Evidence of human occupation in southeast Indonesia dating back 42,000 years offers fresh clues on the route taken by some of the first humans to arrive in our region, according to a new ...
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July 23, 2024 — A pilot study shows that nanoscopic 3-D imaging of ancient bone not only provides further insight into the changes soft tissues undergo during fossilization, it also has potential as a fast, ...
July 19, 2024 — A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The discovery, based on four remarkably well-preserved specimens found curled together in a ...
July 17, 2024 — Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a new ...
July 17, 2024 — New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American ...
July 15, 2024 — Humans have been an important driver of vegetation change over thousands of years, and, in some places, had positive impacts on biodiversity, according to a new ...
July 12, 2024 — Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already ...
July 11, 2024 — A study has revealed that the earliest Neolithic groups to settle some 7,000 years ago in the Pyrenean site of Coro Trasito (Tella, Huesca) used species selection strategies to manufacture their ...
July 11, 2024 — A recent study provides new insights into ancient cultures in Canada's Arctic, focusing on Paleo-Inuit and Thule-Inuit peoples over thousands of years. Researchers detected human presence and ...
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 ...
July 10, 2024 — Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse. Contrary to previous beliefs, the plague may have diminished Europe's populations long before the ...
July 10, 2024 — A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early farming but where scant ...
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 8, 2024 — A study of ancient dingo DNA revealed that the distribution of modern dingoes across Australia, including those on K'gari (formerly Fraser Island), pre-dates European colonization and ...
July 4, 2024 — In recent years global warming has left its mark on the Antarctic ice sheets. The 'eternal' ice in Antarctica is melting faster than previously assumed, particularly in West Antarctica more ...
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 predator in its ...
July 3, 2024 — Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Friday, July 19, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Evidence for Butchery of Giant Armadillo-Like Mammals in Argentina 21,000 Years Ago
- Research Tracks 66 Million Years of Mammalian Diversity
Monday, July 15, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Early Pyrenean Neolithic Groups Applied Species Selection Strategies to Produce Bone Artifacts
- Unveiling 1,200 Years of Human Occupation in Canada's Arctic
- First Ever 3D Reconstruction of 52,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Chromosomes Thanks to Serendipitously Freeze-Dried Skin
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- A New Species of Extinct Crocodile Relative Rewrites Life on the Triassic Coastline
- Research Reveals the Most Complete Dinosaur Discovered in the UK in a Century
- The Plague May Have Caused the Downfall of the Stone Age Farmers
- Archaeologists Report Earliest Evidence for Plant Farming in East Africa
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- First Local Extinction in the US Due to Sea Level Rise, Study Suggests
- Ancient Large Kangaroo Moved Mainly on Four Legs, According to New Research
- Life Underground Suited Newly Discovered Dinosaur Fine
Monday, July 8, 2024
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Giant Salamander-Like Creature Was a Top Predator in the Ice Age Before the Dinosaurs
- Extinct Humans Survived on the Tibetan Plateau for 160,000 Years
- Mighty Floods of the Nile River During Warmer and Wetter Climates
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Organic Material from Mars Reveals the Likely Origin of Life's Building Blocks
- Shrinking Glaciers: Microscopic Fungi Enhance Soil Carbon Storage in New Landscapes Created by Shrinking Arctic Glaciers
- AI-Powered Study Explores Under-Studied Female Evolution
- Layers of Carbonate Provide Insight Into the World of the Ancient Romans
- The Evidence Is Mounting: Humans Were Responsible for the Extinction of Large Mammals
- Unraveling the Origin and Global Spread of the Potato Blight Pathogen
- Sixty-Million-Year-Old Grape Seeds Reveal How the Death of the Dinosaurs May Have Paved the Way for Grapes to Spread
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
- The Beginnings of Fashion
- Investigating Newly Discovered Hydrothermal Vents at Depths of 3,000 Meters Off Svalbard
- Ecologists Reconstruct the History of Biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago and Its Rise as a Hotspot
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Ammonites' Fate Sealed by Meteor Strike That Wiped out Dinosaurs
- Last Surviving Woolly Mammoths Were Inbred but Not Doomed to Extinction
- Prehistoric 'Pompeii' Discovered: Most Pristine Trilobite Fossils Ever Found Shake Up Scientific Understanding of the Long Extinct Group
- Why the Harsh Snowball Earth Kick-Started Our Earliest Multicellular Ancestors
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Researchers Find Genetic Stability in a Long-Term Panamanian Hybrid Zone of Manakin Birds
- Almonds, Pottery, Wood Help Date Famed Kyrenia Shipwreck
- First Case of Down Syndrome in Neanderthals Documented in New Study
- Ocean's Loss of Oxygen Caused Massive Jurassic Extinction: Could It Happen Again?
- Shocked Quartz Reveals Evidence of Historical Cosmic Airburst
- Rewriting the Armadillo Family Tree: A New Species, Plus a Name Change for the State Mammal of Texas
Monday, June 24, 2024
- Carbon Dioxide's Heavy Stamp on Temperature: Doubling CO2 May Mean 7 to 14 Degree Increase
- Rare Samoan Discovery Offers Clues to Origins of Inequality
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
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Origins of Cumulative Culture in Human Evolution
- An Earthquake Changed the Course of the Ganges: Could It Happen Again?
- Direct Evidence Found for Dairy Consumption in the Pyrenees in the Earliest Stages of the Neolithic
- Ancient Polar Sea Reptile Fossil Is Oldest Ever Found in Southern Hemisphere
Friday, June 14, 2024
- Early Homo Sapiens Facilitated the Establishment of the Bonelli's Eagle in the Mediterranean 50,000 Years Ago
- Tiny New Zealand Bird Delivers a Lesson in Birdsong Evolution
- Sharks Have Depleted Functional Diversity Compared to the Last 66 Million Years
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms
- Paleontology: New Fossil Fish Genus Discovered
- 6,000 Years Ago, Men and Women Had Equal Access to Resources
- Ancient Ocean Slowdown Warns of Future Climate Chaos
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- What the Geologic Record Reveals About How Oceans Were Oxygenated 2.3 Billion Years Ago
- Ancient Syrian Diets Resembled the Modern 'Mediterranean Diet'
- Greek Island Was Home to Bronze Age Purple Dye Workshop
- No Bones About It: 100-Million-Year-Old Bones Reveal New Species of Pterosaur
- Origin and Spread of Malaria
- Ritual Sacrifice at Chichén Itzá
- A Mountainous Mystery Uncovered in Australia's Pink Sands
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Scientists Unlock Secrets of How Archaea, the Third Domain of Life, Makes Energy
- Shedding Light on the Origin of a Genetic Variant Underlying Fungal Infections
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
- Cascadia Subduction Zone, One of Earth's Top Hazards, Comes Into Sharper Focus
- Tiny New Species of Great Ape Lived in Germany 11 Million Years Ago
Thursday, June 6, 2024
- The Unexpected Origins of a Modern Finance Tool
- Tiny Roundworms Carve out Unique Parasitic Niche Inside Pseudoscorpion's Protective Covering
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
- Breaking Ground: Could Geometry Offer a New Explanation for Why Earthquakes Happen?
- 'Missing' Early Sea Sponges Discovered
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- Gigantic Jurassic Pterosaur Fossil Unearthed in Oxfordshire, UK
- Human Activity Contributed to Woolly Rhinoceros' Extinction
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Arctic Melting Heavily Influenced by Little-Studied Meteorological Phenomena
- Crucial Shift in River Nile's Evolution During Ancient Egypt Discovered
- Food Drove the Evolution of Giraffes' Long Neck
- Fresh Findings: Earliest Evidence of Life-Bringing Freshwater on Earth
- Kinship and Ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- How Sharks Survived a Major Spike in Earth's Temperature
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Friday, May 31, 2024
- Ancient Medicine Blends With Modern-Day Research in New Tissue Regeneration Method
- Could the World Famous Roman Baths Help Scientists Counter the Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance?
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- 'Ugly' Fossil Places Extinct Saber-Toothed Cat on Texas Coast
- Historic Iceberg Surges Offer Insights on Modern Climate Change
- 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
- Musankwa Sanyatiensis, a New Dinosaur from Zimbabwe
- Tracing the Evolution of Ferns' Surprisingly Sweet Defense Strategy