Archeology
Ancient salamanders are as large as cars
Fossil studies show that salamanders once lived 230 million years ago, about the size of a small car.
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Detection of extinct rhino in 10,000 years
Researchers discovered the body of a turn-feather rhino, an extinct 10,000-year-old animal.
Archeology
Extract DNA of two ancient kangaroo species
Australian researchers successfully extracted the DNA of two extinct marsupials.
Archeology
Looking for the solution to the disappearance of the ancient Neanderthal
Before extinction about 40,000 years ago, the ancient Neanderthals lived side by side with modern humans in Europe for about five millennia.
Archeology
Bad luck makes dinosaurs extinct
Asteroids have crashed into Earth at the time of the most vulnerable dinosaurs, leading to the elimination of this animal on the surface of the globe.
Archeology
Recreate the 410 million-year-old spider's walking
Researchers from the University of Manchester and the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin recently
Archeology
Australian volcano caused the first extinction in history
A Curtin University researcher has demonstrated that the ancient volcanic eruptions in Australia 510 million years ago have caused significant impacts on the climate, ca…
Archeology
New discovery about the primitive extinct Neanderthal
The Neanderthals, extinct relatives of modern humans are known to be primitive and rather clumsy.
Archeology
People are Earth's greatest enemies?
So far, the scientific community is still debating whether humans are the main
Archeology
Mammoths are malformed when near extinction
While studying the collection of twisted feather mammoth fossils in several European museums, experts discovered they often had birth defects when near extinction.
Archeology
Contact between the extinction of dinosaurs and acid rain
The giant meteorite incident that hit Earth 65 million years ago, once thought to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs, caused acid rain and led to the phenomenon of…
Archeology
The ancient mammal has a long lower jaw and unusually protruding
The remnants of an extinct dolphin species have long shown that these aquatic mammals once had long lower jaws and protruded out abnormally.
Archeology
New discovery of the extinction of the Neanderthals
Neanderthals may have faced the danger of extinction before modern ancestors left Africa.
Archeology
New discovery about the cause of mammoth extinction
Recent research has strengthened the theory that comets are the culprits that caused the mass extinction of ancient animals around 12,900 years ago.