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April 10, 2025
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Apr. 9, 2025 — In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Rhinos that flourished across much of North America 12 million years ago gathered in huge herds, according to a new ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers has unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the secrets of a ...
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Apr. 2, 2025 — People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a new study. To complete this ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a new ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over a period of 8 million years, allowing for the occupation and ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new genomic study has uncovered long-lost genetic diversity in mammoth lineages spanning over a million years, providing new insights into the evolutionary history of these ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions fostered ...
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Apr. 3, 2025 — An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — Drastic declines in biodiversity due to human activities present risks to understanding animal behaviors such as tool use, according to new research. Shrinking animal populations make the study of ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate ...
Apr. 1, 2025 — More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has ...
Mar. 31, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...
Mar. 31, 2025 — A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative ...
Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be ...
Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around ...
Mar. 27, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping the building blocks of life. Their study reveals that calcium ions help determine the molecular 'handedness' (chirality) ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — Scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of evolution in the ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets. ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — Two specific genes that evolve exclusively in humans jointly influence the development of the cerebrum. Researchers have provided evidence that these genes contribute together to the evolutionary ...
Mar. 26, 2025 — Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: Researchers present an innovative tool that offers many new ...
Mar. 25, 2025 — Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life ...
Mar. 25, 2025 — Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Climate Change and Prehistoric Human Populations: Eastward Shift of Settlement Areas at the End of the Last Ice Age
- Animal Behavioral Diversity at Risk in the Face of Declining Biodiversity
- Machine Learning Helps Construct an Evolutionary Timeline of Bacteria
- Bees Actively Adjust Flower Choice Based on Color and Distance: Updating 'flower Constancy' Beyond Darwin's Theory
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Seeing Humanity's Transition from Hunting to Farming as a Cultural Shift
- First Ancient Genomes from the Green Sahara Deciphered
- Early Earth's First Crust Composition Discovery Rewrites Geological Timeline
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
- Discovery of Quina Technology Challenges View of Ancient Human Development in East Asia
- 'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not': Physical Forces Encouraged Evolution of Multicellular Life, Scientists Propose
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- A Genetic Tree as a Movie: Moving Beyond the Still Portrait of Ancestry
- Melting Ice, More Rain Drive Southern Ocean Cooling
- How Calcium May Have Unlocked the Origins of Life's Molecular Asymmetry
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Scientists Uncover Key Mechanism in Evolution: Whole-Genome Duplication Drives Long-Term Adaptation
- New Species Revealed After 25 Years of Study on 'inside Out' Fossil -- And Named After Discoverer's Mum
- Earliest Days of Earth's Formation
- How Did the Large Brain Evolve?
- Cuneiforms: New Digital Tool for Translating Ancient Texts
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
- 5,700-Year Storm Archive Shows Rise in Tropical Storms and Hurricanes in the Caribbean
- Organic Molecules of Unprecedented Size Discovered on Mars
- Biologists Discover Ancient Neurohormone That Controls Appetite
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- From Dinosaurs to Birds: The Origins of Feather Formation
- Researchers Propose New Hypothesis for the Origin of Stone Tools
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- New 'shy' Fungus Found in Old-Growth Forest
- Genetic Study Reveals Hidden Chapter in Human Evolution
- When Did Human Language Emerge?
- New Fossil Discovery Reveals How Volcanic Deposits Can Preserve the Microscopic Details of Animal Tissues
Monday, March 17, 2025
- The 'frontiers' Of Southeast Iberian Bronze Age Communities Identified
- Illusion of 'dazzle' Paint on World War I Battleships
- Without Oxygen: How Primordial Microbes Breathed
- Iguanas Floated One-Fifth of the Way Around the World to Colonize Fiji
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Misha Lived in Zoos, but the Elephant's Tooth Enamel Helps Reconstruct Wildlife Migrations
- Dozens of 3-Toed Dinosaurs Leave Their Mark in Australia
- New Name for One of the World's Rarest Rhinoceroses
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Rare Frog Rediscovered After 130 Years
- A 62-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Sheds Light on an Enigmatic Mammal
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Common Approaches for Assessing Business Impact on Biodiversity Are Powerful, but Often Insufficient for Strategy Design
- Evolution of Plant Network: 600 Million Years of Stress
- AI Tool to Make Genetic Research More Comprehensive
- Are Volcanoes Behind the Oxygen We Breathe?
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- World's Oldest Impact Crater Found, Rewriting Earth's Ancient History
- Plants Struggled for Millions of Years After the World's Worst Climate Catastrophe
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- 'Fluorescent Phoenix' Discovered With Persistence Rivaling Marie Curie's
- Researchers Make Recommendations for Promoting Sustainable Development in Mangrove Forest Areas
- Earliest Evidence for Humans in Rainforests
- Fish Teeth Show How Ease of Innovation Enables Rapid Evolution
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Humans Inherited Their Flexible Joints from the Earliest Jawed Fish
- Giant Ice Bulldozers: How Ancient Glaciers Helped Life Evolve
- The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System
- New Study Reveals Neanderthals Experienced Population Crash 110,000 Years Ago
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Origin and Diversity of Hun Empire Populations
- Mega-Iceberg from Antarctica on Collision Course With South Georgia: Harbinger of Things to Come?
- Research Provides New Detail on the Impact of Volcanic Activity on Early Marine Life
Friday, February 21, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
- Animals as Architects of Earth: First Global Study Reveals Their Surprising Impact
- Near-Complete Skull Discovery Reveals 'top Apex', Leopard-Sized 'fearsome' Carnivore
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Research Reveals How Earth Got Its Ice Caps
- Does Planetary Evolution Favor Human-Like Life? Study Ups Odds We're Not Alone
- Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies Smell 'woody,' 'spicy' And 'sweet'
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Evolution, Evolution, Evolution: How Evolution Got So Good at Evolving
- Birds Have Developed Complex Brains Independently from Mammals
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age
- Underwater Fossil Bed Discovered by Collectors Preserves Rare Slice of Florida's Past
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Outokumpu's Bedrock Reveals a Smelly Surprise
- Model of Antarctica's Water Enhances Sea Level Forecasts
- Evidence of Cannibalism 18,000 Years Ago
- New Study Unravels the History of the Largest Pastoral Population in Africa
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Physicists Hit Major Milestone in Advancing Superconductor Applications
- Anomaly in the Deep Sea
- Less, but More: A New Evolutionary Scenario Marked by Massive Gene Loss and Expansion
- Earth's Inner Core Is Undergoing a Transformation
- Novel Bacteria Parasitizing Archaea
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- How Life's Building Blocks Took Shape on Early Earth: The Limits of Membraneless Polyester Protocell Formation
- Whale Poop Contains Iron That May Have Helped Fertilize Past Oceans
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- The Early Roots of Carnival? Research Reveals Evidence of Seasonal Celebrations in Pre-Colonial Brazil
- Meteorite Discovery Challenges Long-Held Theories on Earth's Missing Elements
- Cretaceous Fossil from Antarctica Reveals Earliest Modern Bird
- Missing Link in Indo-European Languages' History Found
- Illuminating the Beginnings of Animal Development
Monday, February 3, 2025
- New Research on Ancient Life Found in Yellowstone Hot Springs
- Life-Bearing Water Arrived on Earth Later Rather Than Sooner
Friday, January 31, 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Ancient DNA Analyses Bring to Life the 11,000-Year Intertwined Genomic History of Sheep and Humans
- Sharks and Rays Benefit from Global Warming, but Not from CO2 in the Oceans
- Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- Oceanic Plate Between Arabian and Eurasian Continental Plates Is Breaking Away
- Exploring Mysteries of Asteroid Bennu