In a forest rebounding after a wildfire 110 million years ago, an armored dinosaur devoured a meal of tender ferns in western Canada before suffering a sudden death – perhaps drowning in a river or a flash flood – and being washed out to sea.
Site at Aguada Fénix found using lidar aerial laser technology
Animal DNA gleaned from parchments is helping researchers piece together the scrolls’ history
National Geographic funds UVic paleoanthropologist to solve 40,000-year-old mystery
New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ angle.
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built ‘traps’ where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year.
Material collected from Tagish Lake meteorite that fell across Yukon, B.C. in 2000
The oldest Homo sapiens fossils that anthropologists have found thus far date to around 315,000 years ago. That means we can say that modern humans are at least that old. But our lineage likely extends further back in time — we just don’t have the fossils to prove it.
Researchers from the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (Buenos Aires) found a large carnivorous dinosaur of about 70 million years old in the southwest of the province of Santa Cruz. From the specimen were recovered vertebrae, ribs and parts of the chest and shoulder girdle.
The Histories by Herodotus (484BC to 425BC) offers a remarkable window into the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks in the mid fifth century BC.
