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Indian Defence Review
indiandefencereview.com > scientists-extract-pristine-rhinoceros-dna

Scientists Extract Pristine Rhinoceros Dna From a Predator’s Last Meal

Scientists Extract Pristine Rhinoceros Dna From a Predator’s Last Meal4+ hour, 49+ min ago   (593+ words) A remarkable discovery in Siberia has revealed the best-preserved DNA of a woolly rhinoceros ever found, extracted from muscle tissue inside a 14,400-year-old wolf cub. The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), a cold-adapted herbivore once common across northern Eurasia, vanished around…...

Forbes
forbes.com > sites > scotttravers > 01/17/2026 > a-biologist-explains-how-prehistoric-terror-birds-earned-their-name

A Biologist Explains How Prehistoric ‘Terror Birds’ Earned Their Name

A Biologist Explains How Prehistoric ‘Terror Birds’ Earned Their Name4+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1001+ words) Evolution occasionally indulges us with organisms that seem too cool or too scary to be true, like something out of a science fiction film. The phorusrhacids, better known as "terror birds," are one such case. These were large, flightless predatory…...

New York Post
nypost.com > 01/17/2026 > us-news > bone-crushing-dino-hookups-were-all-the-rage-in-prehistoric-eras

Dino-mate! Dinosaur’s painful hookups were literally bone-crushing, study shows

4+ hour, 51+ min ago   (538+ words) Dinosaurs liked it rough " and the fossils they left behind prove it. Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they literally broke each other's bones, a new study in the journal…...

Interesting Engineering
interestingengineering.com > culture > 2-million-year-old-skeleton

2-million-year-old skeleton reveals ape-like features in early humans

2-million-year-old skeleton reveals ape-like features in early humans5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (551+ words) After 10 years of painstaking research in Kenya, scientists have finally confirmed the identity of a unique two-million-year-old H. habilis individual. A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution. Scientists once believed that our early ancestors…...

bbc.com
bbc.com > news > articles > c8j3p1rer83o

Yorkshire fossil hunters reveal 'wow factor' of Holderness coast

Yorkshire fossil hunters reveal 'wow factor' of Holderness coast5+ hour, 56+ min ago   (627+ words) The East Yorkshire coast attracts thousands of tourists each year but the beaches and cliffs that make up the landscape are becoming a growing attraction for people seeking more than a day at the seaside. On the fastest eroding coastline…...

Animals Around The Globe
animalsaroundtheglobe.com > fossil-discovery-may-solve-mystery-of-what-one-of-the-weirdest-ever-animals-ate

Fossil Discovery May Solve Mystery of what one of the Weirdest-ever Animals Ate

Fossil Discovery May Solve Mystery of what one of the Weirdest-ever Animals Ate7+ hour, 26+ min ago   (116+ words) Home " News " Fossil Discovery May Solve Mystery of what one of the Weirdest-ever Animals Ate A recent fossil discovery has begun to illuminate the feeding habits of Hallucigenia, one of the most peculiar creatures from Earth's ancient past. To grasp…...

Watts Up With That?
wattsupwiththat.com > 01/17/2026 > human-evolution-our-ultimate-fate-comes-down-to-three-possibilities

Human Evolution: ‘Our Ultimate Fate Comes Down to… Three Possibilities’

8+ hour, 19+ min ago   (1021+ words) Everything around us seems to be changing at breakneck speed. Twenty years ago, smartphones were niche products. Twenty years before that, computers were clunky behemoths. Forty years before that, far more Americans traveled by train than by plane. Forty years…...

GB News
gbnews.com > science > dinosaur-discovery-palaeontologists-tyrannosaurus-rex-trex

Dinosaur discovery by palaeontologists fundamentally alters scientific understanding of the notorious tyrannosaurus rex

Dinosaur discovery by palaeontologists fundamentally alters scientific understanding of the notorious tyrannosaurus rex12+ hour, 11+ min ago   (590+ words) Iran democracy protesters clash with Met Police outside London embassy The findings challenge decades of assumptions about dinosaur biology A landmark investigation into Tyrannosaurus rex fossils has fundamentally altered scientific understanding of how long these apex predators took to mature....

@NMNH
naturalhistory.si.edu > research > botany > news > plant-press > smithsonian-digitizes-pollen-18000-plant-species

Smithsonian Digitizes Pollen From 18000 Plant Species

12+ hour, 34+ min ago   (583+ words) Smithsonian Digitizes Pollen From 18,000 Plant Species'National Museum of Natural History A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than18,000 plant species from the tropics. These images are being used to train a…...

WAND-TV
wandtv.com > study-t-rex-took-around-35-years-to-fully-grow > video_db286a47-a418-533f-bfff-39fabc17b739.html

Study: T-Rex took around 35 years to fully grow

Study: T-Rex took around 35 years to fully grow14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (92+ words) Study: T-Rex took around 35 years to fully grow'wandtv.com Family of former U of I basketball player makes $1M donation to athletic department Central Illinois soldier missing since WWII accounted for Man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting woman at a Decatur…...