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The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in partnership with Canterbury Museum, the Ng膩i Tahu Research Center and filmmaker Peter Jackson, caused ...
Archaeologists from the University of Houston working at Caracol in Belize, Central America have uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, the first ruler of this ancient Maya city and the founder of its royal dynasty. Now in ...
A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking lot in January, making the herbivorous animal's remains the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil ...
In 1931, the Skh奴l I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skh奴l (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skh奴l Cave, Israel. It forms part of the oldest intentional human burials ever discovered, dating back to ca. 140,000 ...
An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists鈥攁 bone considered important to flight in birds.
Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more than 20 million years ago. The recovered protein sequences allowed researchers to determine that ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on Neanderthal ingenuity. The ancient utensil dates back to the end of the Saalian glaciation, around 130,000 ...
Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel of the teeth of 18-million-year-old fossilized mammals from Kenya's Rift Valley, opening a window ...
A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from Eurasia.
When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized invertebrates that feast ...
