“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...
Now I’ve covered some exotic hunting, but this is on another level. So, apparently there is this prehistoric-bone hunter, or fossil hunter, whatever you want to call him.
If you grew up enjoying stops at the Golden Arches for McDonald's, these are some of the toys you might remember most from ...
Some landscapes feel so unreal that your brain needs a second to process what you’re seeing. Steam curls out of the earth like the ground is breathing, blinding white salt stretches to the horizon, ...
It's been thousands of years since the woolly mammoths that used to roam the Northern Hemisphere went extinct. However, their former habitat is still ...
Costa Rica's Museo Nacional announces a groundbreaking fossil discovery in Cartago, including remains of a mastodon-like ...
The base is abandoned, but the U.S. Army left some waste behind.
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Researchers retrieve the deepest-ever rock core from beneath Antarctica's ice. It holds clues about the Earth's past—and future
Researchers are looking into our planet’s past to understand its future. Just like archaeologists investigate layers of dirt ...
Named for its astonishing head crest, Spinosaurus mirabilis was found at a newly discovered site known as Jenguebi. This fossiliferous area lies in Niger’s central Sahara and, based on its geology, it ...
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