Parking lot construction at Colorado's Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first discovery at the monument in more than 100 years, according to the National Park Service.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 21, 2026
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Today, only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India. However, the oldest spiny dormouse in evolutionary history, a member of the rodent family, was found in sediment dating back 17.5 to 13.3 million ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 20, 2026
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An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth's oceans after a global mass extinction.
Ecology
Jan 16, 2026
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Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia.
Ecology
Jan 15, 2026
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A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines significantly influenced extinction patterns for animals living in the shallow oceans during the last 540 million ...
Ecology
Jan 15, 2026
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The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of them on cave walls and carved figurines of them out of bone, antler, ivory and wood.
Evolution
Jan 15, 2026
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Researchers from the Center for Paleogenetics have managed to analyze the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, recovered from a tissue sample found preserved inside the stomach of an ancient wolf.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 14, 2026
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For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of Tyrannosaurus rex to estimate how old the giant carnivores were when they died and how quickly they grew ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 14, 2026
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An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years.
Evolution
Jan 14, 2026
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Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.
Evolution
Jan 13, 2026
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