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Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.
www.discovermagazine.com/upside-down-...
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A new study offers insights into which animal groups’ evolutionary path brought them from the land and back to water.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
A new study offers insights into which animal groups’ evolutionary path brought them from the land and back to water.
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A hiker in Norway has stumbled onto a 1,500-year-old reindeer-hunting complex emerging from melting ice — a massive wooden trap system unlike anything seen before in Europe.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A hiker in Norway has stumbled onto a 1,500-year-old reindeer-hunting complex emerging from melting ice — a massive wooden trap system unlike anything seen before in Europe.
www.popsci.com/science/hike...
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Fossil eggshells from an ancient lakebed in Australia reveal the oldest known member of the mekosuchine crocodile lineage.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Fossil eggshells from an ancient lakebed in Australia reveal the oldest known member of the mekosuchine crocodile lineage.
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Fresh evidence suggests Neanderthals might have engaged in early ritual or symbolic behavior.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Fresh evidence suggests Neanderthals might have engaged in early ritual or symbolic behavior.
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The largest reptile egg in recorded history has officially been discovered in Antarctica.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The largest reptile egg in recorded history has officially been discovered in Antarctica.
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Neanderthals in what is now Belgium may have eaten the weakest members of an enemy clan around 45,000 years ago.
www.iflscience.com/45000-years-...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Neanderthals in what is now Belgium may have eaten the weakest members of an enemy clan around 45,000 years ago.
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Researchers have detected chemical signatures of ancient microbial life in 3.51-billion-year-old rocks, pushing evidence of Earth’s earliest biology deep into the Paleoarchean.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Researchers have detected chemical signatures of ancient microbial life in 3.51-billion-year-old rocks, pushing evidence of Earth’s earliest biology deep into the Paleoarchean.
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Learn about a fossil site in Transylvania that contains hundreds of vertebrate remains and was once an island full of dwarf dinosaurs.
www.discovermagazine.com/long-necked-...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Learn about a fossil site in Transylvania that contains hundreds of vertebrate remains and was once an island full of dwarf dinosaurs.
www.discovermagazine.com/long-necked-...
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Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them more susceptible to infection.
www.discovermagazine.com/did-neandert...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them more susceptible to infection.
www.discovermagazine.com/did-neandert...
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New fossil discoveries show that modern-type sharks were experimenting with gigantic sizes far earlier than scientists believed, competing with the marine “monsters” of the dinosaur age.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New fossil discoveries show that modern-type sharks were experimenting with gigantic sizes far earlier than scientists believed, competing with the marine “monsters” of the dinosaur age.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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New research reveals Dunkleosteus was an oddball among ancient armored fishes.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
New research reveals Dunkleosteus was an oddball among ancient armored fishes.
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Deep in Transylvania’s Hațeg Basin, researchers have uncovered a rare bone bed where dinosaur fossils lie stacked together by the hundreds.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Deep in Transylvania’s Hațeg Basin, researchers have uncovered a rare bone bed where dinosaur fossils lie stacked together by the hundreds.
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Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time, a new study suggests.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/kiss...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time, a new study suggests.
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Rare, gruesome Jurassic fossils of decapitated Aspidorhynchus fish are revealing the violent predator–prey rivalries that once ruled ancient seas.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Rare, gruesome Jurassic fossils of decapitated Aspidorhynchus fish are revealing the violent predator–prey rivalries that once ruled ancient seas.
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Paleontologists have uncovered Australia’s oldest crocodile eggshells — traces of an extinct lineage that may have included tree-dwelling “drop crocs.”
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November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Paleontologists have uncovered Australia’s oldest crocodile eggshells — traces of an extinct lineage that may have included tree-dwelling “drop crocs.”
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/p...
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A research team in China has uncovered Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, an early marine reptile whose astonishingly long neck was built from 42 cervical vertebrae.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
A research team in China has uncovered Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, an early marine reptile whose astonishingly long neck was built from 42 cervical vertebrae.
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Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.
www.discovermagazine.com/a-math-equat...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.
www.discovermagazine.com/a-math-equat...
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Deep in the Burgess Shale’s ancient mud lies the story of Mosura fentoni — a three-eyed, fin-fringed Cambrian predator that once prowled the seas half a billion years ago.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Deep in the Burgess Shale’s ancient mud lies the story of Mosura fentoni — a three-eyed, fin-fringed Cambrian predator that once prowled the seas half a billion years ago.
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/rea...
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Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an exceptionally preserved specimen contradicts that.
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an exceptionally preserved specimen contradicts that.
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
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A previously unknown Indigenous population lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study finds.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A previously unknown Indigenous population lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study finds.
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Technology to clone mammoths may be close, but does that mean we should?
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November 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Technology to clone mammoths may be close, but does that mean we should?
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A 55-million-year-old eggshell discovery from Queensland rewrites the early history of Australia’s extinct mekosuchine crocodiles.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
A 55-million-year-old eggshell discovery from Queensland rewrites the early history of Australia’s extinct mekosuchine crocodiles.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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A paleoanthropologist reflects on England’s oldest human cranium—and what its changing interpretations say about science.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A paleoanthropologist reflects on England’s oldest human cranium—and what its changing interpretations say about science.
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A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence linking the two.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence linking the two.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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