New Species Of Winged Reptile Found On Isle of Skye – Its Diversity Was Greater Than Previously Assumed A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced by scientists from the Natural History Museum, University of Bristol, University of Leicester, and University of Liverpool. The new pterosaur … Read more
200-Million-Year-Old Flying Reptile Kuehneosaurus Discovered In Somerset, UK Gliding winged-reptiles were among the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, researchers at the University of Bristol have revealed. Kuehneosaurs looked like lizards, but were more closely related to the ancestors of crocodilians and dinosaurs. They were small animals that could fit neatly on the palm … Read more
Large Mammoth Tusk And Bones Buried For Thousands Of Years Found In North Dakota The first person to spot it was a shovel operator working the overnight shift, eyeing a glint of white as he scooped up a giant mound of dirt and dropped it into a dump truck. Later, after the truck driver dumped … Read more
Unusual 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone May Belong To An Unknown Vanished Human Lineage Anthropologists in China have unearthed fragments of a lower jaw that may have belonged to an unknown human lineage. The bone, which is around 300,000 years old, belonged to a young teenager and features a unique mosaic of ancient and modern traits, according to a new … Read more
Are you a morning person? You may be a Neanderthal descendant. A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that genetic material from Neanderthal ancestors may have contributed to the propensity of some people today to be “early risers,” the sort of people who are more comfortable getting up and … Read more
Animal fossils from 240 million years ago found in Poland Polish scientists have discovered the remains of over a thousand specimens of extinct animals from about 240 million years ago. Among them are the bones of a reptile unknown to science so far. In Miedary near Tarnowskie Góry (Upper Silesia), a team of scientists from … Read more
490-Million-Year-Old Trilobites Could Solve Ancient Geography Puzzle Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography. Trilobites are extinct sea creatures with half-moon-shaped heads that breathed through their legs. A 100-page monograph in Papers … Read more
Europe Was Not Covered By Dense Forest Before The Arrival Of Modern Humans For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows that there was far more open and semi-open vegetation than conventionally expected. Textbooks on biology and … Read more
Astonishing 15-Million-Year-Old Spider Fossil Is The Second Largest Ever Found Found at McGraths Flat, NSW, a fossil site known for its iron-rich rock called “goethite,” the new genus of spider is the first ever spider fossil of the Barychelidae family to be found. The discovery was made by a team of Australian scientists led by Australian Museum (AM) and … Read more
Hundreds Of Mummified Bees inside their Cocoons from the Time of the Pharaohs found in Portugal A new study reports the discovery of hundreds of mummified bees inside their cocoons. These cocoons, produced almost 3,000 years ago, were discovered in a new paleontological site discovered on the coast of Odemira, in Portugal. About 2,975 years … Read more