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April 21, 2020

Prehistoric crocodiles were more like whales and dolphins, shocking study finds

A newly published study notes that prehistoric crocodiles acted more like modern-day whales and dolphins than their modern-day relatives, based off their inner-ear sensory system.

March 27, 2020

This primeval worm may be the ancestor of all animals

Humans, it's been said, are like donuts. They have an opening at each end, and a single continuous hole running through their middle. (Note: This theory has yet to appear in a peer-reviewed journal.)

March 23, 2020

Fish sprouted fingers before they ventured onto land, fossil shows

A 380-million-year-old fossil of a fish has revealed that fingers evolved in vertebrates before the creatures wriggled out of the sea and evolved into land-dwelling creatures, as a new study describes.

March 19, 2020

Meet 'Wonderchicken': Scientists find 67M year-old fossil of 'world's first modern bird'

Researchers have discovered "wonderchicken," a 67-million-year-old fossilized bird they believe is the first "modern bird."

March 17, 2020

Mysterious Ice Age structure built from woolly mammoth bones found

Researchers have discovered a mysterious structure at least 20,000-years-old comprised of woolly mammoth bones in Russia that has left experts stunned.

March 4, 2020

Dinosaurs may have traveled shorter distances than previously believed, new study suggests

A new study suggests that dinosaurs traveled significantly shorter distances and had drastically different migration behavior than initially believed.

March 4, 2020

Traces of DNA found in fossilized dinosaur skull, scientists claim

A shocking new study suggests that researchers have found traces of DNA inside a fossilized dinosaur skull.

March 3, 2020

'Exquisite' dinosaur-age cockroaches discovered preserved in amber

A pair of 99-million-year-old cockroaches are rewriting the early history of the underworld.

February 19, 2020

World's oldest salamander discovered in Siberia

Scientists have discovered the world's oldest salamander, a 167-million-year-old specimen found in Siberia.

February 18, 2020

Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, shocking study says

Despite most scientists generally accepting that dinosaurs were cold-blooded creatures, a new study suggests they were in fact warm-blooded.