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1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (309+ words) The world's oldest fossilized butthole has been discovered, and it's older than you might think. This ancient reptile's behind, dating back 290 million years, has revealed fascinating insights into the evolution of early reptiles. But here's where it gets controversial: the…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (343+ words) LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KOLO) - At the peak of the last Ice Age, roughly 25,000 years ago, the Las Vegas area was wet and green, filled with springs, streams and marshy land'and it was home to a wide variety of animals. "We…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago  (872+ words) A life-sized foam dinosaur reveals that oviraptors relied on the sun to hatch their eggs. Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of blue-green eggs. Yet paleontologists have always…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago  (863+ words) Water drawn through the hollow stem of a living Equisetum plant, horsetail, has registered the most extreme oxygen isotope signature ever measured in any terrestrial material. That discovery stretches the known chemical limits of Earth's water and forces scientists to…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1067+ words) Researchers have found that forests were already growing more than 16,000 years ago on a now-submerged landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe. That discovery recasts the drowned plain between Britain and mainland Europe as a hospitable refuge for plants,…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago  (299+ words) These Bay Area men have mammoth problems. Two friends from Petaluma have been arrested after smashing a woolly mammoth tusk while roughhousing at the Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum in Missouri. The tusk was around 10,000 years old and said to…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago  (585+ words) The specimen is a single vertebra recovered from fossil-bearing sediments near Tainan, in southwestern Taiwan. It came from the Chiting Formation, a geological deposit formed roughly 800,000 to 400,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch. The fossil was analyzed by Cheng-Hsiu Tsai…...

5+ hour, 35+ min ago  (555+ words) A single vertebra pulled from ancient sediments in southwest Taiwan has upended what scientists thought they knew about the island's prehistoric ecosystem. The bone belongs to a giant python that stretched more than 13 feet long " a species with no living…...

7+ hour, 11+ min ago  (43+ words) New research reveals dinosaurs used sun to help hatch eggs'ttownmedia.com An experiment to test how dinosaurs might have hatched eggs. (Chun-Yu Su via SWNS) Dinosaurs hatched eggs less efficiently than modern birds, according to new research. (Chun-Yu Su via…...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago  (1119+ words) Home " News " When Plants Left the Ocean They Changed the Course of Life on Earth Few events in the history of life on Earth were as quietly revolutionary as the moment plants left the ocean behind. No fanfare, no sudden…...