Tagged: fossils

The discovery could have huge implications for climate change studies. Looking through the back of your freezer can unearth all manner of goodies that you’d likely forgotten about, but probably nothing quite as surprising as a discovery made at the back of a freezer at...

HEAPS of alien bones may be sitting on the Moon just waiting to be discovered. That’s the bonkers claim made by one top scientist, who reckons that if extraterrestrial life ever crashed on the Moon, its remains are probably still there. Professor Abraham Loeb, chair...

Archaeologists have discovered fossils of an enormous, prehistoric rat that was the size of a human years ago in South America. Known as Neoepiblema acreensis, the 10-million-year-old rat weighed approximately 180 pounds and had two, gigantic curved incisor teeth on its 5-foot frame that were...

We have often wondered how long life existed on Earth and now it seems we finally have an answer. Scientists have found the earliest evidence of life on planet Earth and it turns out that life was present on our planet hundreds of millions of...

– The discovery of Homo naledi some years ago, an extinct hominin species caused a sensation. Suddenly we had a new human ancestor that could re-write our history and fill in gaps in the evolutionary record. Now, new discovery of fossils belonging to Homo naledi...

‘Baby Louie’ – the fossil dinosaur embryo and associated clutch of eggs – were first discovered in the early 1990s, in a rock formation from the western part of China’s Henan Province. Now, researchers finally give ‘Baby Louie’ a species name and a place in...

– Currently, the most common view is that dinosaurs first emerged around 237 million years ago on the ancient continent known as Gondwana. A new controversial theory has been presented by scientists suggesting that first dinosaurs came from Scotland. The theory has already sparked controversy...

– There has long been a controversy about the timing of bison arrival in North America, but new research can shed more light on how and when the animals arrived and spread across the continent. Scientists have identified North America’s oldest bison fossils and can...

– Evidence has come forth from the Po Valley, San Daniele region of Italy that in the time of the Neanderthals, the region had something in common with parts of Africa and Asia, where large carnivorous spotted cats can be found in modern times. A...

– In the recent years, many interesting discoveries have been made in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. This time, researchers report they have discovered evidence porcupines lived in caves in the Altai Mountains around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. While there have been discoveries of porcupine...