Rare skull of elephant ancestor unveiled in France
A French farmer kept quiet for years after stumbling across the skull of an extinct ancestor of the elephant near the Pyrenees mountains, the Natural History Museum of Toulouse has told AFP.
Jul 12, 2018
in
Ancient DNA testing solves 100-year-old controversy in Southeast Asian prehistory
Southeast Asia is one of the most genetically diverse regions in the world, but for more than 100 years scientists have disagreed about which theory of the origins of the population of the area was correct.
New wasps named after Crocodile Dundee and Toblerone amongst 17 new genera and 29 species
A total of 17 new genera and 29 new species of parasitoid wasps were identified following a study into the material deposited at major natural history collections around the globe in an attempt to further uncover the megadiverse ...
Strange 'nude' fossil creature from half a billion years ago
Scientists have discovered the fossil of an unusual large-bodied 'nude' sea-creature from half a billion years ago.
Museum collection reveals distribution of Carolina parakeet 100 years after its extinction
While 2018 marks the centenary of the death of the last captive Carolina parakeet—North America's only native parrot, a team of researchers have shed new light on the previously known geographical range of the species, ...
Naming rights for five new snail-sucking snake species auctioned to save forests in Ecuador
Five new species of eye-catching snakes with curious eating habits were found to dwell in forests in Ecuador. Their unusual taste for snails—a rather unusual diet among typical snakes—has even sculpted their jaws in such ...
By the skin of their teeth—DNA traces reveal what kind of pigs lived in Bronze Age Hallstatt
Salt has been mined at Hallstatt since the Bronze Age, including for the preservation of pork meat. Bone fragments and teeth found in the area provide evidence of an organized meat industry, especially of pork. Residual DNA ...
T. Rex snarls at visitors to Paris botanical garden
Trix, an eight-tonne Tyrannosaurus rex, will find a home at Paris' Jardin des Plantes for three months from Wednesday, greeting visitors in attack mode, with her terrifying, toothy snarl mounted at eye level.
Scientists map the earliest Icelandic genome
Around 870 CE, Norsemen crossed the North Atlantic to reach Iceland, which they spent the next five decades colonising.
The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur
Spinosaurus is the longest, and among the largest predatory dinosaurs, and possesses many adaptations for a semiaquatic lifestyle. A tiny claw phalanx of the foot, discovered in Cretaceous-aged sandstones of the Sahara, shows ...
