Archeology
The angry Minion-like anusless creature is not the earliest ancestor of mankind
A 2017 study concluded that an angry Minion-like microscopic creature without an anus was the earliest human ancestor.
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Archeology
Archaeologists find fossils of ancient giant storks taller than humans
Archaeologists discovered the 1.5 meter tall Flores stork on the island of the same name that specializes in eating animal carcasses and this may be the reason they beca…
Environment
Create renewable jet fuel from bacteria, replacing fossil energy in the future
A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully harvested alternative jet fuel from commonly found species of soil bacteria in the genus…
Archeology
The strange sea monster can be the 'ancestor' of all creatures on the planet
Strange creatures lurking deep in the Earth's oceans more than half a billion years ago, it seems to be
Biology
Ants help scientists discover thousands of fossils
A team of paleontologists recently discovered 10 previously unknown species of ancient mammals with the help of reaping ants.
Medicine - Health
New discovery about the middle ear of humans evolved from fish gills
Chinese scientists provide anatomical and fossil evidence that the origin of breathing tubes in vertebrates is from gills.
Archeology
Japan announced the world's never-before-seen 5-color monster
The image of a monster with 5-color fur quite flamboyant has just been published by the Hokkaido University Museum - Japan.
Oceanography
The truth about the giant shark that dominated the deep sea for more than 20 million years
The largest known shark on Earth, Otodus megalodon, has dominated the seas for more than 20 million years.
Archeology
Discovered a new giant predatory dinosaur, up to 10m long
A 70-million-year-old fossil unearthed in southern Argentina reveals previously unknown giant predatory dinosaurs.
Archeology
Fossils over 247 million years old reveal new ichthyosaur species
Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of a previously uncharacterized ichthyosaur in the Guangxi Autonomous Region.
Animal world
Revealing a 100-million-year-old asexual shrimp species
Fossils of fairy shrimp from the Cretaceous period show that this species does not need a male to be able to reproduce normally.
Archeology
Dinosaur fossils were pierced by their own kind
The fierce battle with the opponent caused Big John, the largest 3-horned dinosaur specimen ever found, to have a keyhole-shaped puncture in the frill.
History
The extinction of the Neanderthals was not caused by our ancestors overnight!
New fossils are challenging the idea that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals shortly after leaving Africa.
Archeology
Discover the world's oldest cannibal
A new study has revealed that trilobites, marine arthropods, were the world's first cannibals.
Archeology
The most complete dinosaur fossil at the Australian museum
The 67-million-year-old triceratops specimen from Montana astounds researchers with 266 bone fragments preserved to date.