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Dinosaur discovery stops construction at Utah park
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (533+ words) A parking lot construction project at Dinosaur National Monument turned into an unexpected fossil discovery " the first at the site in more than a century. Construction crews paused asphalt removal on Sept. 16 after they uncovered a piece of sandstone containing…...
“Nutcracker Man” ventured further and wider than first thought, new Ethiopian fossil discovery shows | Natural History Museum
7+ hour, 27+ min ago (414+ words) Nutcracker Man" ventured further and wider than first thought, new Ethiopian fossil discovery shows [21 January 2026, London UK] The discovery of a fossil in northern Ethiopia, attributed to the genus Paranthropus, has changed our understanding of this unusual branch of our…...
Dinosaur National Monument paleontologists uncover first new fossils since 1924
8+ hour, 19+ min ago (130+ words) Recent parking lot construction at Dinosaur National Monument has uncovered fossils of a long-necked dinosaur on the Utah-Colorado border. Park staff say the discovery near the Quarry Exhibit Hall'is the first fossil excavation there since 1924, when the original excavations at…...
Fossil Friday digs up fun, Waco history
8+ hour, 27+ min ago (600+ words) By Kaylee Hayes | Reporter In the Mayborn Museum's Hall of Natural History, brushes scrape and chisels tap as Baylor researchers carefully uncover fossils from the Waco Mammoth National Monument. Each Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., visitors to the museum can gather around…...
Fossil of dead-end branch of life which became extinct to go on display
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (630+ words) A fossil from a lifeform which once towered over the ancient landscape is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. Prototaxites, which grew to more than eight metres tall, belonged to an "entirely extinct evolutionary branch of…...
A 2.6-Million-Year-Old Jaw Uncovers a Missing Hominin From the Afar Region
9+ hour, 48+ min ago (465+ words) Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old'Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia's Afar region is reshaping scientists' understanding of early human evolution and competition with Homo. One branch of the human family tree had never shown up in one of its most studied landscapes. Despite…...
Evidence of ‘lightning-fast’ evolution found after dino-killing asteroid impact
11+ hour, 19+ min ago (380+ words) An artist's interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by the impact. The geometric form (bottom left) is a…...
New study finds indirect evidence for existence of Moctezuma’s Zoo
12+ hour ago (290+ words) Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Mexica (Aztec) civilisation, situated on a raised islet in the western side of the shallow Lake Texcoco, which is now the historic part of present-day Mexico City. The study, published by archaeologist Israel Elizalde…...
2.6 million-year-old jaw from extinct 'Nutcracker Man' is found where we didn't expect it
12+ hour, 8+ min ago (334+ words) A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new information about diversity in human evolution. Fragments of a 2.6 million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in northeastern Ethiopia are transforming the picture of…...
Rewrite Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian
12+ hour, 17+ min ago (85+ words) Vertebrate vision is mainly accommodated by a pair of lateral image-forming camera-type eyes and is supplemented in non-mammalian vertebrates by a dorsal pineal complex (pineal and parapineal organs) functioning as photoreceptive and/or endocrine organs1. The pineal complex shares a common…...