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September 26, 2017

Desert fossils reveal 540-million-year-old Jellyfish 'graveyard'

Walk across a beach's wet sand, and you'll leave behind imprints that briefly hold the shape of your feet before blurring and falling apart.

September 26, 2017

'Alesi,' the 13-million-year-old baby monkey, could be mankind's earliest ancestor

The skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with apes — including a likely African origin, scientists say.

September 25, 2017

People are now getting their ivory fix from woolly mammoths

The hunt is on for frozen tusks from the extinct woolly mammoth, and NPR reports that it's making people rich in otherwise poor regions of Siberia.

September 25, 2017

Experts 'rediscover' largest 'sea dragon' fossil in museum archive

The Ichthyosaurus or ‘sea dragon’ fossil was found in the mid-1990s but remained unstudied until recently when experts made a startling discovery.

September 25, 2017

Mammoth tooth reveals beast once walked around Austin, Texas

CALGARY, Alberta — About 67,000 years ago, a gigantic mammoth chowed down on enormous mouthfuls of grass in Texas, just west of where modern-day Austin is located, according to new research.

September 18, 2017

Looted skeleton could be among the oldest in the Americas

First, the bad news: Divers stole a prehistoric human skeleton from an underwater cavern near Tulúm on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula five years ago.

September 15, 2017

Giant, dinosaur-eating crocodile discovered in Texas

A giant, 20-foot long crocodile from the Cretaceous Period has been discovered in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas.

June 23, 2017

Ancient humans ate cantaloupe-size eggs from 500-pound birds

The burnt eggshell fragments of an ancient giant bird have helped scientists solve a 50,000-year-old whodunit in Australia.

June 13, 2017

Partial skeleton reveals primate ancestors dwelled in trees

A 62-million- year-old partial skeleton discovered in New Mexico confirms that early primate ancestors preferred to dwell in trees.

June 12, 2017

99-million-year-old bird found preserved in amber stuns scientists

Archeologists have just discovered a nearly complete bird, encased in fossilized tree sap, that has remained intact for almost 100 million years.