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Early Animal With Four Eyes Offers Clues to Human Origins
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (626+ words) Home " News " Early Animal With Four Eyes Offers Clues to Human Origins Imagine a creature that looks like a swimming noodle with eyes. Not one pair of eyes. Four. This is not science fiction, and it's not some deep-sea oddity…...
A mouth built for efficiency may have helped the earliest bird fly
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (615+ words) The 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx had mouth features similar to those of birds today Fleshy "teeth" on the roof of Archaeopteryx's mouth, a sensory organ at the end of the beak and a highly mobile tongue (all illustrated) may have helped the…...
Fossil tooth lodged in skull helps reconstruct final moments of giant dinosaur
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (391+ words) Researchers say finding indicates duckbilled plant-eating dinosaur was killed by a T rex A dinosaur's tooth found embedded in the skull remains of another has revealed insights into the final moments of a fight between two giant beasts over 66 million…...
Where Did Dinosaurs Come From? New Evidence Points to the Equator
5+ hour, 3+ min ago (682+ words) Home " Science " Paleontology One fossil's teeth are forcing scientists to rethink where dinosaurs began. A small fossil jaw rests in Argentina's national natural science museum in Buenos Aires. The fossil, only six inches long, carries backward-curving teeth shaped for gripping…...
Buried Deep in China, This Weird Ancient Sponge Closes a 160-Million-Year Gap in Evolution
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (517+ words) Scientists have long suspected that the first sponges appeared far earlier than fossils suggested. A remarkable find may now support that idea. The find, led by Shuhai Xiao of Virginia Tech, suggests that the earliest sponges lacked mineral skeletons, which…...
2,000-year-old footprints discovered on beach after storms
12+ hour, 41+ min ago (632+ words) Two dog walkers have discovered 2,000-year-old footprints on a Scottish beach which were briefly uncovered by recent storms. Locals Ivor Campbell and Jenny Snedden were walking their dogs at Lunan Bay in Angus in late January when they noticed storm…...
Research group claims preeclampsia doomed the Neanderthals, but experts say it's just a 'thought experiment"
20+ hour, 52+ min ago (709+ words) Quick, fun science challenges. Preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that involves high blood pressure, could have led to a decline in Neanderthals' fertility, a new study suggests. The mysterious disappearance of our Neanderthal cousins may have been related to preeclampsia,…...
A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story
21+ hour, 11+ min ago (360+ words) Published Feb 18, 2026 4:00 PM EST A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, tells a gory story. The skull from a large plant-eating Edmontosaurus has a tooth lodged into it, indicating that it may…...
BU prof part of landmark ‘dinosaur barf’ discovery
21+ hour, 41+ min ago (388+ words) Brandon -10" C, Blowing snow A Brandon University paleontologist has helped identify dinosaur barf that's nearly 290 million years old " and could be the oldest known example of fossilized vomit from a land-dwelling predator. Assistant biology professor Mark MacDougall was part of…...
Colossal dinosaur measuring 92-feet-long accidentally discovered at a construction site
22+ hour, 50+ min ago (855+ words) Scientists report the discovery of a giant sauropod dinosaur, Tongnanlong zhimingi " Late Jurassic giant from southwestern China estimated at up to 92-feet-long. The fossil was found in Chongqing's Tongnan District, part of the Sichuan Basin, and comes from rocks laid…...