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.
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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.
www.iflscience.com/the-thing-an...
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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.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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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”.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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One fossil’s teeth are forcing scientists to rethink where dinosaurs began.
www.zmescience.com/science/pale...
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A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist.
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A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores.
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A “smiling” fossil find highlights hundreds of millions of years of marine history preserved in coastal stone.
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A new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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A fossil on display at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies reveals how dinosaurs in the Tyrannosaurus genus may have subdued prey, and the specimen is the focus of a new collaborative research publication in Canada.
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For decades, reconstructions of Triceratops relied on bone alone. Now, Japanese paleontologists have mapped their soft-tissue anatomy, revealing structures that may explain thermoregulation and breathing.
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