70-million-year-old dinosaur baby unearthed in China is one of the best-preserved fossils ever found A 70-million-year-old fossil of a complete baby dinosaur in its egg, apparently just a few days before it would have hatched, shows the remarkable similarities between theropod dinosaurs and the birds they would evolve into, according to a study published Tuesday. … Read more
Unveiling the Mysteries of a 20,000-Year-Old Woolly Rhino: A Remarkable Discovery in Eastern Siberia The remarkably preserved carcass of an Ice Age-era woolly rhino has been unearthed by locals in eastern Siberia, researchers have said. The rhino was revealed by the melting permafrost in the Abyisky region of Yakutia in north-eastern Russia. With most of … Read more
Ancient DNA puts a face on the mysterious Denisovans, extinct cousins of Neanderthals Researchers have been able to bring the now-extinct cousins of Homo sapiens, the Denisovans, back to life (of sorts)—offering us the first glimpse at what these little-understood hominids would have looked like tens of thousands of years after they went extinct. Up … Read more
Huge 6.5-FOOT thigh bone belonging to ‘world’s biggest dinosaur’ found in France – and it weighs 500 kilos Palaeontologists have unearthed a 6.5 foot-long (two metre) thigh bone that belonged to a giant sauropod dinosaur around 140 million years ago. The enormous bone — which weighs in at around half a tonne — was unearthed … Read more
Fossilized teeth dating back 9.7 million years could ‘rewrite’ human history Scientists have announced the shock discovery in Germany of ancient teeth fossils that are nearly 10 million years old, and which they say don’t fit in with our established timeline of human history. What’s causing a commotion is the researchers say one of these … Read more
A Student Found an Ancient Canadian Village That’s 10,000 Years Older Than the Pyramids The history of humanity is prone to becoming revised whenever new significant archaeological findings are uncovered. It was traditionally believed that the Sumerians, Egyptians, Mayans, etc. were one of the earliest civilizations on Earth, however, this is not entirely accurate. A few years … Read more
Scientists discover remains of Hobbit human that stood only 3ft high and lived 700,000 years ago in Indonesia An international team of researchers has just announced the discovery of 700,000-year-old remains that are related to a tiny species of human ancestors, lovingly referred to as ‘hobbits’. Found on an island in Indonesia, the newly found … Read more
Neanderthals were not driven to extinction by lack of intelligence, but interbreeding, study shows They are often depicted as dim-witted evolutionary losers, but Neanderthals were not driven to extinction by their lack of brains, a new study suggests. Instead, it is more likely that they disappeared 40,000 years ago because of interbreeding and assimilation with … Read more