5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (190+ words) But most of their work has been lost 1:00 PM CDT on October 7, 2026 Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution peeled back 16 archeological levels documenting roughly 20,000 years of Neanderthal occupation (from around 62,000 to 40,000 years ago). They meticulously…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (130+ words) As if they weren’t terrifying enough 11:00 AM CDT on October 9, 2026 A team of researchers led by paleobiologist Kiersten Formoso of Rutgers University compared two major groups of mosasaurs: the russellosaurines and mosasaurines. While both were enormous, the tail shapes of…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (271+ words) Its unique throat paved the way for our big brains 6:00 PM CDT on October 7, 2026 If the operators of Jurassic Park were going for verisimilitude, they wouldn’t have just included flashy dinosaurs. There were plenty of tiny protomammals scurrying around at…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (324+ words) It from a bygone epoch when all sorts of crocs roamed the Mediterranean 6:00 PM CDT on October 6, 2026 One of Egypt’s most iconic reminders of the Old Kingdom is the Great Sphinx, which was carved right out of the Giza Plateau’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (463+ words) Why don’t great apes have knee problems? 6:30 PM CDT on September 29, 2026 How are your knees doing? Do they crackle like a campfire when you get off the couch? Do they send sharp, nagging pains reminding you to sit down if…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (257+ words) A preserved feather provides some essential clues 10:00 AM CDT on September 10, 2026 Paleontologists from the U.S. and China formed a hypothesis based on a fossilized poop, or coprolite, from a theropod dinosaur, found in Montana. Inside the poop were tiny, perfectly preserved…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (256+ words) It’s meant to help lure prey 9:00 AM CDT on September 10, 2026 Paleontologists piece together ancient animals primarily from bones. The vast majority of the time, these animals’ soft tissues have dissolved and left no trace in the fossil record. And so,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (232+ words) The most carefully packed embryo of all the vertebrates 7:00 AM CDT on September 9, 2026 There’s something special you might not know about snake embryos: They form in a tight spiral shape, usually in a clockwise direction. This packaging trick is the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (234+ words) Which makes its extinction even more tragic 1:30 PM CDT on August 31, 2026 Now a new study investigating the thylacine’s bite shows they likely never posed a threat to livestock at all. “The longer a jaw is, the faster its tip moves…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (336+ words) Only the second fossil of its type to be discovered 11:30 AM CDT on August 25, 2026 Bones, shells, and teeth have a tough enough time surviving hundreds of millions of years. But soft tissue, like the skin and organs of an animal?...