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Snakes for Supper: Ancient Levantines Ate Reptiles for 3,000 Years
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Ancient penguin bones reveal Antarctica’s shift from warm to cold
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (516+ words) Overview of the fossil specimens and the µ-XRF scanning area. (Boyang Xia et al., 2026 via SWNS) Penguin fossils have offered a new window into Antarctica's changing climate over millions of year. Analysis of remains from Seymour Island, off the Antarctic…...
Unraveling the Evolutionary History of Horseshoe Crabs: Q&A with Faye Santaniello
12+ hour, 57+ min ago (420+ words) For URI marine biology and wildlife and conservation biology double major Faye Santaniello, this summer has been an opportunity to explore the evolutionary history of one of the ocean’s most fascinating animals: the horseshoe crab. Santaniello, who is from Warwick,…...
The???mini-dragon??? that survived extinction: why scientists are obsessed
13+ hour, 55+ min ago (219+ words) More than just rare, the earless monitor lizard is a true living fossil. Its closest common ancestor is believed to have roamed the earth over 66 million years ago–back in the days of the dinosaurs. With such an extraordinary evolutionary…...
Ancient feces fertilize seas and ignite Cambrian biodiversity boom
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In Argentina, one fossil bone from a 236-million-year-old cynodont contained a rare clue about birth. Researchers found its newborn size resembled mammals, suggesting live birth evolved 95 million years earlier than thought
17+ hour, 18+ min ago (157+ words) For thousands of years, Pacific farmers adapted crops to drought and changing weather; now Samoa and Tonga are combining that ancestral knowledge with modern science to rebuild soil, manage weeds and make farms more climate-resilient Image Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikipedia Best…...
Carnivorous plant find validates Darwin
7+ hour, 10+ min ago (346+ words) Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first carnivorous plant in the Saxifragales order — a group of non-woody flowering plants widely spread across temperate and cold mountain regions. The breakthrough validates a prediction made by British naturalist Charles Darwin in…...
These Mammoth Ivory Carvings May Be the “Find of the Year”
14+ hour, 32+ min ago (397+ words) They’re 40,000 years old and about the size of your thumbnail 3:00 PM CDT on August 17, 2026 Archaeologists have discovered two remarkable mammoth ivory carvings in southwestern Germany: intricate miniatures that are about the size of your thumbnail and date back 40,000 years. One…...
Megalodon Teeth Aren't A Rare Find, But One This Big Really Is
15+ hour, 14+ min ago (203+ words) We find crazy things wash up on the Jersey Shore all the time, especially after large storms. Like one time I found what I thought was an old pirate sword on the beach in Seaside. Turns out it was just…...
The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science – podcast
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (241+ words) One of the UK’s best fossil collections has been sold overseas in what experts have called a loss to the nation. The collection, which is now on display at the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi, was gathered on Dorset’s…...