July 19, 2018 Baby snake from the time of the dinosaurs found 'frozen' in amber A remarkable baby snake embryo has been discovered encased in 99-million-year-old amber.
July 6, 2018 Native dogs of the Americas were wiped out by European colonization Ancient dogs arrived in the Americas alongside humans more than 10,000 years ago but were later wiped out by European colonization, a new study suggests.
June 21, 2018 Scientists honor Obama by naming ancient sea creature after him The University of California, Riverside, explained Monday in a news release that the moniker “honors President Barack Obama’s passion for science.”
June 19, 2018 The oldest DNA from giant pandas was just discovered in a cave in China Scientists in China found a fossil from a giant panda that lived 22,000 years ago. Until they excavated the fossil, reassembled it and analyzed its mitochondrial DNA, biologists had no idea this panda lineage even existed.
June 18, 2018 100 million-year-old tick found entrapped in amber Imagine your worst day ever, preserved for eternity. That's what happened to a very unlucky tick 100 million years ago.
June 11, 2018 500 million-year-old claw-faced sea monster was a killing machine if you could dip your head into the oceans of Earth as they appeared 500 million years ago, you might see what looked like a spiny, disembodied claw cruising through the depths while trying to stuff an unfortunate piece of prey into its circular, fang-filled mouth. If you were lucky, you might even see a teeny-tiny baby claw bobbing along behind it.
June 8, 2018 World's oldest animal footprints discovered - revealing strange burrowing creature that lived 550M years ago Scientists have uncovered the earliest footprints left by animals on Earth, dating back more than half a billion years.
May 31, 2018 240 million-year-old 'mother of all lizards' found Move over Godzilla. There's a new "mother of all lizards" in town.
May 30, 2018 Discovery of 'reptilian-mammal' fossil could rewrite history The discovery of an unusual fossilized skull in eastern Utah is shedding new light on Earth’s history.
May 22, 2018 Thousands of human bones discovered in Denmark reveal gruesome 'barbarian' war rituals Archaeologists made a gruesome discovery when they unearthed an ancient burial site filled with thousands of bones — later identified as victims of a battle fought 2,000 years ago in northern Europe between "barbarian" Germanic tribes.
