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More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made about 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous Period, by theropods—bipedal ...
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Two ancient human species came out of Africa together, not one, suggests new study
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has emerged suggesting it wasn't ...
Decades-long quest leads to first scholarly accurate fossil replica of 'dinosaur-killer' croc
Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University geology professor, has contributed his research to the creation of the first-ever scholarly accurate, ...
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Dec 22, 2025
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Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History discovered more than 70 new species in 2025
From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History.
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2025
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A 400-million-year-old fossil is revealing how plants grew into giants
The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few centimeters high.
Evolution
Dec 18, 2025
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Prehistoric elephant footprints documented for first time in Murcia's fossil dunes
An international team, involving researchers from the University of Seville, the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in Granada and the University of Huelva, has identified the first fossilized vertebrate footprints from ...
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Dec 17, 2025
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Q&A: Climate shifts drove carnivores' evolution from mongoose-like ancestors to diverse forms
The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, round ears. In fact, all members of the order Carnivora, which includes a variety of mammalian ...
Evolution
Dec 17, 2025
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New fossil study illuminates the evolutionary success of frogs
A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The research is published in the journal iScience.
Evolution
Dec 17, 2025
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Metabolic analyses of animal fossils help scientists reconstruct million-year-old environments
For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 to 3 million years ago, revealing insights about both the animals and their environments.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 17, 2025
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3D analysis of wrist ligaments reveals locomotion clues in human ancestors
When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for understanding the evolution of bipedalism—focusing mainly on muscle insertion sites. However, the potential ...
Evolution
Dec 17, 2025
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New fossil lungfish from Yunnan sheds light on critical stage of early vertebrate evolution
A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)—has identified a new species of fossil ...
Evolution
Dec 17, 2025
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Young shark species more vulnerable to extinction, fossil record reveals
Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability. This has been the assumption of an old debate on whether species' age plays a role in extinction ...
Evolution
Dec 17, 2025
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How owl leftovers became the perfect home for ancient baby bees
About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of their prey, which landed on the cave floor. And, researchers have just discovered, ancient bees ...
Ecology
Dec 16, 2025
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A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue
A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan ...
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Dec 16, 2025
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The best dinosaur discoveries of 2025
In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the BBC revived their landmark series Walking With Dinosaurs, while July saw the release of Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh film in the extinction-proof Jurassic Park franchise.
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Dec 16, 2025
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A new fossil face sheds light on early migrations of ancient human ancestor
A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual reconstruction of the face of early ...
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Dec 16, 2025
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The dinosaurs that forgot how to fly
A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that these dinosaurs had lost ...
Evolution
Dec 16, 2025
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First armored dinosaur hatchling discovered in China
The mystery surrounding dozens of small dinosaur fossils has finally been solved. Remains previously thought to belong to miniature armored dinosaurs are actually baby ankylosaurs, offering scientists new insight into how ...
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Dec 15, 2025
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Iconic 'Little Foot' fossil may be new type of human ancestor
An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged the classification of one of the world's most complete human ancestral fossils, raising the possibility ...
Evolution
Dec 15, 2025
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Sea reptile's tooth shows that mosasaurs could live in freshwater
Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers. This is shown by new research based on analyses of a mosasaur tooth found in North Dakota and believed ...
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Dec 12, 2025
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