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How did hunter-gatherers in southeastern Anatolia quarry, carve, and raise 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge, without metal tools or the wheel?
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (510+ words) At Göbekli Tepe, hunter-gatherers raised 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures around 9600 BCE — 6,000 years before Stonehenge — using flint tools, wooden sledges, log rollers, ropes, and coordinated labour. Here is how the mechanics actually worked. By Science Blog Editorial Team…...
It walked on two legs, wore a beak, and looked just like a small dinosaur — yet the creature dug from New Mexico rock lived 100 million years too early to be one, and was really a cousin of the crocodiles
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (639+ words) A crocodile relative mastered the dinosaur blueprint millions of years before dinosaurs existed, suggesting convergent evolution worked faster than we thought. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 Picture an ostrich-mimic dinosaur: long legs, a light frame, a toothless beak,…...
A paleontologist noticed the dirt inside a fossil rodent's empty tooth sockets was smoother than sediment should ever be — CT scans revealed up to six generations of bee nests, built and rebuilt in the same cavity over thousands of years.
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (216+ words) Paleontologist Lázaro W. Viñola-López, of Chicago's Field Museum, was cleaning fossil jawbones from an extinct Caribbean rodent called a hutia when he noticed something that did not sit right. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 The paper…...
In 2011 the Netherlands dumped twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand into the sea in one enormous pile, and let wind and tide spread it into new coastline for the next twenty years instead of trucking sand in every few years
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (118+ words) In 2011, engineers piled 21.5 million cubic metres of sand into a single peninsula off the Dutch coast and then largely left it alone, betting that wind, waves, and currents would spread it into new coastline over the next twenty years. By…...
Earth's inner core is not pure iron — a 2025 Oxford study found it could only have begun to freeze if roughly 3.8 percent of it is carbon, which means the solid heart that powers our magnetic field exists because of the same element that makes up every living thing on the planet
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (1105+ words) The planet's magnetic shield may owe its existence to carbon, the element that animates all life on Earth. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 Earth’s inner core is often described as a solid iron ball. That is a useful…...
It looked like a cross between a pig and a turtle, it had two tusks and a horny beak and no other teeth, it was hardly anyone's idea of a champion — and it is the most successful land animal, by sheer dominance of its world, that has ever lived
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (661+ words) By Brendan Brown · Editorial process Published July 19, 2026 You would almost certainly say no. There is nothing about this creature that suggests dominance. Nothing to suggest speed, strength, cleverness, or apex-predator power. Nothing to suggest that it will one day out-compete…...
For decades the heavy rocks crossing Death Valley were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding across the lakebed on thin rafts of melting ice pushed by an almost imperceptible wind
1+ week, 3+ day ago (965+ words) Across a dry lakebed in one of the hottest places on Earth, heavy rocks leave long trails in the mud as if they have travelled under their own power. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 15, 2026 The answer…...
A flame has burned inside a grotto behind a waterfall near Buffalo for generations, through rain and snow, and when geologists finally investigated they found the rock below was nowhere near hot enough to explain where the gas is coming from
1+ week, 5+ day ago (383+ words) Behind a thin curtain of water in western New York, a flame flickers from a crack in dark shale. Snow can surround it in winter, spray can soak the grotto...
A meteorite that fell near the Australian town of Murchison in 1969 was found to contain grains of stardust up to around 7 billion years old — the oldest solid material ever identified on Earth, formed long before the Sun or planets existed.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (28+ words) A stone that fell from the sky over rural Victoria in 1969 turned out to contain something older than Earth, older than the Sun and older than every...
Beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice sits a lake the size of a small sea, sealed off from the sky for millions of years and possibly still holding life
1+ week, 6+ day ago (716+ words) Lake Vostok is one of the strangest lakes on Earth because, for most purposes, Earth has hidden it from itself. It lies under the central East Antarctic...