“Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like.
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“Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/face...
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Life may have begun as sticky goo long before true cells existed, according to a new theory suggesting Earth’s raw ingredients first formed slimy, pre-cellular blobs.
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Ancient DNA shows Ireland’s rare Old Irish Goat is directly linked to goats from 3,000 years ago, revealing an unbroken lineage that connects modern herds to the island’s Bronze Age agricultural past.
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The discovery of a rare fossil goose in an ancient lake in Central Otago, New Zealand, shows the evolutionary history of Aotearoa’s birds is far more dynamic than once thought.
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A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.
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180 years after disappearing, a tortoise returns to its Galápagos home. The release of 158 specially bred Floreana giant tortoises is a win for both the animal and its long-lost island ecosystem.
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A team of international scientists from China and Spain has identified two well-preserved fossilized lizard trackways in Asturias, Spain, marking the first record of Jurassic lizard trackways in Europe.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202602/28/...
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Learn how a combination of archaeology and anthropology helped reveal hidden insights into the diet and culture of prehistoric Europeans.
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A new method of studying the contents of soil samples has revealed Stone Age people in Sweden were buried in decorated fur-and-feather clothing.
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Male Neanderthals appear to have paired more often with female modern humans, though whether those encounters were consensual remains unclear.
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A giant egg nicknamed “The Thing” has forced a rethink of the breeding behavior of mosasaurs.
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A complete Alnashetri cerropoliciensis skeleton from Patagonia, plus two northern specimens, reveals how these enigmatic theropods evolved and spread before the continents split.
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A new study finds that training an AI to identify fossils may require far fewer specimens than expected — with about 250 shark teeth enough to achieve over 90% accuracy.
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A new method is giving researchers a better understanding of the specimens that Charles Darwin brought back from his journey on the HMS Beagle.
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A 16-million-year-old amber fossil reveals a new ant species — and the first Western Hemisphere record of Hypoponera.
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Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and not a coastal path.
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Paleontologists in Brazil have identified a previously unknown species of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur with European affinities, hinting at ancient migration routes that once linked two continents now separated by the Atlantic Ocean.
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A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook.
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Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system.
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
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Analysis of a rock examined by the Curiosity rover reveals an abundance of organic matter.
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“Golden ammonites” gleam from Germany’s black Posidonia shale — but these 183-million-year-old fossils, including ichthyosaur embryos and squid with intact ink sacs, aren’t made of pyrite after all.
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Paleontologists solve a prehistoric murder mystery: welcome to CSI: Cretaceous period
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A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why Neanderthals put them there.
www.sciencealert.com/neanderthals...
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A 295-million-year-old reptile resting in mud has left behind the oldest known fossilized cloaca, offering a rare glimpse of early reptile skin and anatomy.
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Australian fossils show that “sea-salamanders” roamed the world’s oceans 250 million years ago, highlighting their resilience after the Great Dying.
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Evolution doesn’t act only on individuals — growing evidence shows natural selection can shape entire groups, rewriting how adaptation is understood.
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Fossils of the three-toed horse Hipparion are linking ancient climate change and evolution to modern conservation, including the recovery of the last surviving wild horse.
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Generative AI prompted to depict Neanderthals produced inaccurate images and descriptions, echoing outdated stereotypes drawn from accessible — not current — research.
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For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct “hell pigs” and “wolves with hooves”.
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One fossil’s teeth are forcing scientists to rethink where dinosaurs began.
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