2+ week, 6+ day ago  (651+ words) An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors. Most early ape fossils paleontologists have unearthed come from East Africa, close to the forests where some chimpanzees and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (302+ words) nationalgeographic. com The bizarre raptor-like dinosaurs that menaced the Mesozoic In the third episode of our Dead World video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines tiny prehistoric predators with baffling claws, weird wings, and bony skulls potentially…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (568+ words) One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn't lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning. "It's just hard to comprehend the energy that is necessary for a volcano to keep spewing lava every 15 to 20 minutes," remarks…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (524+ words) Last year, National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson was in Corral Bluffs on the outskirts of Colorado Springs, searching for minuscule fossils. His tool of choice? A unique filtering machine called a "bubbler." "To find these three teeny tiny teeth we…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (215+ words) Invertebrates are animals without a backbone or bony skeleton. They range in size from microscopic mites and almost invisible flies to giant squid with soccer-ball-size eyes. This is by far the largest group in the animal kingdom: 97 percent of all…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1485+ words) Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question. "It was amazing," recalls Vidal, of the University of Chicago. "It was like a unicorn." Back in 2022, when he stumbled upon the…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (557+ words) The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal's complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. In 2011, mammoth ivory hunters in northeastern Siberia discovered a mummified wolf puppy that had lain frozen for 14, 400 years....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (329+ words) New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like Neanderthals. Around 770, 000 years ago, a small windswept cave overlooked grassy plains and trees in what today is southwest Casablanca in…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (512+ words) A handful of unique fossils are spilling the secrets of dinosaur courtship and reproduction." Bertozzo's Olorotitan discovery revived the notion. The broken bones could be the long-sought evidence of how dinosaurs mated. Paleontologists have never doubted that dinosaurs copulated just…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (409+ words) A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. "This was not just a fossil concretion containing a new species of a rare type of pterosaur,…...