Largest Known Single Dinosaur Track Site In Alaska Discovered And Documented Scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks have discovered and documented the largest known single dinosaur track site in Alaska. Located in Denali National Park and Preserve, this remarkable location has been named “The Coliseum” by the experts. Spanning the equivalent of one-and-a-half football … Read more
48-Million-Year-Old Fossil: Insect Inside Lizard Inside Snake Reveals Prehistoric Battle of Food Chain Palaeontologists have uncovered a fossil that has preserved an insect inside a lizard inside a snake – a prehistoric battle of the food chain that ended in a volcanic lake some 48 million years ago. Pulled from an abandoned quarry in southwest … Read more
Ancient Skull Discovery in China Points to Possible New Species of Human Scientists believe they may have identified a new species of human after finding an ancient skull that belonged to a child who lived up to 300,000 years ago. The fossilised remains, which included a jaw, skull, and leg bones, were discovered in Hualongdong, China in 2019. … Read more
Unraveling the Mystery of the Hammer Found in an Ancient Rock Formation in Texas While walking along Red Creek, London, Texas in June 1936, Emma Zadie Hahn and her husband Max Edmond Hahn made an unusual discovery: a piece of wood poking out of what appeared to be an ancient rock formation. The story goes that ten-ish … Read more
Resurrecting the Ice Age Giants: Woolly Mammoth Hybrids Set to Grace the Arctic Landscape in Just Five Years! Over four billion species are estimated to have walked this planet over the last 3.5 billion years. Ninety-nine percent of them are now gone. But today’s researchers are hoping to reintroduce these lost species—or at least something … Read more
Flipping Amazing! Father-of-four Discovers 8,000-Year-Old Dolphin Bones While Digging a Pool in His Back Garden A man has discovered 8,000-year-old dolphin bones while digging in his back garden. Paul McDonald, 44, was digging a swimming pool for his children when he struck a bone of the 10ft foot mammal with his digger. The bottlenose dolphin … Read more
Face of 45,000-year-old woman reconstructed 70 years after skull found In 1950, archaeologists discovered a severed skull buried deep inside a cave system in Czechia (the Czech Republic). Because the skull was split in half, researchers concluded that the skeletal remains were of two separate individuals. However, through genome sequencing done decades later, scientists concluded … Read more
Researchers Return to Greece’s Antikythera Shipwreck The wreck of Antikythera was recently brought into the spotlight by the film “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Far from the cinematic imagination, an international team of archaeologists, divers, engineers and physical and natural scientists is currently excavating the famous wreck. This year, the researchers have made … Read more
Remains of tiny Roman pet dog found at villa in Oxfordshire The remains of a tiny Roman dog have been discovered at a popular walking spot. An archaeological dig at Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire has uncovered the 1,800-year-old remains of a 20cm tall pooch. The animal’s remains were unearthed at the site of a villa … Read more
DNA Analysis Enables Lifelike Reconstruction of Woman Who Died in the Famed Vasa Warship Wreck At first, researchers thought a 17th-century shipwreck skeleton was male. But a new reconstruction reveals her as female, based on results from a genetic analysis done earlier this year. When researchers raised the Vasa — a 17th-century Swedish warship that … Read more