Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo and the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ibaraki have precisely measured the brain size of Homo...
Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade.
Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a...
New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...
According to a pioneering study detailed in the journal Nature, hunter-gatherers were using pots for cooking fish as early as 15,000 years ago.
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100M year old dinosaur tracks reported in the journal Chinese Science Bulletin suggest that some dinosaurs were strong swimmers.
Carnivorous two-legged...
A new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that more than 1,000 bird species became extinct on Pacific islands...
University of Southampton paleontologists have described a completely new genus and species of small prehistoric flying reptile from a fossil discovered...
Paleontologists from the Australian National University have described a new species of ancient fish, after unearthing the largest fossilized lobe-finned...
A group of paleontologists has announced the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct giant camel that lived in what is now Canada about 3.5 million...
According to U.S. paleontologists, the discovery of 19 million year old crocodilian fossils in Panama sheds new light on the history of interchange and...
An international team of paleontologists has solved some of the mysteries surrounding large spiral fossils of an ancient fish called Helicoprion.
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A new research by an international team of archaeologists provides convincing evidence that the earliest civilization of South America relied heavily on...
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has found remains of an industrial installation dating back to the Byzantine period (600...
An international team of scientists has used a new automated tool to reconstruct protolanguages – ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved.
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A small, insect-eating animal was the common ancestor of placental mammals, an international team of researchers has reported in the journal Science (full...
A new research led by Spanish scientists casts doubt on the widely accepted theory that the last Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia, Spain, at the...
A team of scientists from Romania, the United Kingdom and Brazil has described a new species of extinct flying reptile from the time of the dinosaurs.
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