1st bioengineered hybrid animals discovered — in ancient Mesopotamia0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 19, 2022
Skeletons of “kungas” discovered in a princely burial.
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A Newly Discovered Fossil Could Be The Answer to Darwin’s ‘Abominable’ Mystery0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 17, 2022
Scientists in China say they have found the oldest flower bud in the fossil record, finally aligning the fossil evidence with the genetic data suggesting flowering plants, or angiosperms, evolved tens of millions of years earlier than we initially thought.
‘Gasps all around:’ New Burgess Shale fossil sheds light on the evolution of bigness0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- September 9, 2021
It was getting late and the team of paleontologists excavating a previously unexplored outcrop of the Burgess Shale was ready to call it a day. A camera crew filming the dig in Kootenay National Park had already packed it in.
How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 21, 2021
A newly analyzed specimen is a ‘one-in-a-million’ find, researchers say
Tusk reveals woolly mammoth’s massive lifetime mileage0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 17, 2021
Scientists have analysed the chemistry locked inside the tusk of a woolly mammoth to work out how far it travelled in a lifetime.
‘Wiggly’ fossils found in Canada may be oldest known sign of animal life0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 29, 2021
Scientists believe the unusual tubular structures may be the remnants of prehistoric sponges
‘Jurassic Pompeii’ yields thousands of ‘squiggly wiggly’ fossils0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 22, 2021
“If they could squeal, I’m sure they would have done.”
Fantastical Jurassic Fossil Shows Crustacean Eaten by Squid Eaten by Shark0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 11, 2021
Sometime in the early Jurassic, an ancient squid-like creature speared a yummy lobster-like crustacean with its many hooked tentacles. Just as it began to dig into its meal, the eater became the eaten.
Fossils Reveal Cephalopods May Be 30 Million Years Older Than We Thought0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 7, 2021
The class of marine animals known as cephalopoda – which today includes squids, octopuses, and cuttlefishes – could have been around on Earth 30 million years earlier than previously thought, according to new research.
Fossils reveal dinosaur forerunner smaller than a cellphone0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 7, 2020
Scientists have discovered a pocket sized dinosaur forerunner that was just 4 inches tall
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