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New Zealand Cave Discovery Reveals Ancient Species — Including a Relative of the Kākāpō #Science #Biology #Zoology #AncientSpecies #Kākāpō #NewZealandDiscovery

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New Zealand Cave Discovery Reveals Ancient Species — Including a Relative of the Kākāpō
Learn more about the animals that were living inside the 'lost world' of this New Zealand cave.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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5,000-Year-Old Wolves Found on Remote Island Challenge Conventional Views of Domestication #Science #Biology #Zoology #WolfDomestication #AncientSpecies #EvolutionaryInsights
5,000-Year-Old Wolves Found on Remote Island Challenge Conventional Views of Domestication
Ancient wolves found on a human-occupied Baltic island reveal unexpected and complex forms of prehistoric human-animal interaction. Researchers have uncovered wolf remains dating back thousands of years...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Ancient Bees Found Nested Inside Fossilized Bone — A Behavior Never Seen Before #Science #Biology #Zoology #Fossils #Bees #AncientSpecies
Ancient Bees Found Nested Inside Fossilized Bone — A Behavior Never Seen Before
Learn how environmental constraints and a lack of soil led ancient bees to reuse fossil cavities in a Caribbean cave, leaving the first known evidence of this behavior.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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As an Ancient Cow Species Foraged For Seagrass, it Shaped Its Surroundings Around 21 Million Years Ago #Science #Biology #Ecology #AncientSpecies #Ecosystem #Paleontology
As an Ancient Cow Species Foraged For Seagrass, it Shaped Its Surroundings Around 21 Million Years Ago
Meet Salwasiren qatarensis, a small, ancient sea cow species whose fossils were found in Qatar, in one of the world’s biggest marine mammal bonebeds.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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This Prehistoric Bird Choked to Death on 800 Rocks, And No One Knows Why #Science #Paleontology #PrehistoricBird #AncientSpecies
This Prehistoric Bird Choked to Death on 800 Rocks, And No One Knows Why
What the heck was it trying to do?
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December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Scientists Discover Ancient 13-Foot-Long Crocodile Relative in Egypt #Science #Biology #Paleontology #CrocodileDiscovery #AncientSpecies
Scientists Discover Ancient 13-Foot-Long Crocodile Relative in Egypt
A newly identified fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, dating to the Campanian period (about 80 million years ago), extends the evolutionary history of Dyrosauridae and underscores Egypt’s Western Desert...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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This Ancient Species of Arctic Rhino May Have Crossed a Land Bridge 23 Million Years Ago #Science #Paleontology #AncientSpecies #ArcticRhino
This Ancient Species of Arctic Rhino May Have Crossed a Land Bridge 23 Million Years Ago
Learn more about Epiatheracerium itjilik, the Arctic rhino species that is the northernmost rhino ever found.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Scientists accidentally created living hybrids of sturgeon and paddlefish, despite the two species diverging over 180 million years ago.

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Scientists accidentally created living hybrids of sturgeon and paddlefish, despite the two species diverging over 180 million years ago. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturddlefish Follow us for more source-backed facts! #HybridCreation #AncientSpecies #ScientificDiscovery
September 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Did This Species Bury Its Dead 120,000 Years Before Us? New Claims Reignite Debate #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #AncientSpecies
Did This Species Bury Its Dead 120,000 Years Before Us? New Claims Reignite Debate
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September 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Prehistoric ‘scalopini’ mole fossil uncovered in an ancient Spanish volcano crater #Science #Paleontology #Other #FossilDiscovery #AncientSpecies
Prehistoric ‘scalopini’ mole fossil uncovered in an ancient Spanish volcano crater
Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of prehistoric mole in Spain. Vulcanoscaptor ninoti lived during the Pliocene Epoch, from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago and belonged to the Scalopini,...
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July 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Ancient Scottish Salamander is 14 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought #Science #Biology #Zoology #SalamanderDiscovery #Paleontology #AncientSpecies
Ancient Scottish Salamander is 14 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought
Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious
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July 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Ancient Monster Salamander With “Power Jaws” Discovered in Tennessee #Science #Biology #Paleontology #AncientSpecies #Evolution
Ancient Monster Salamander With “Power Jaws” Discovered in Tennessee
A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant salamander with powerful jaws once burrowed through the ancient soil of what is...
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June 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Discovery of a Lifetime: Student Discovers Ancient “Living Fossil” Underneath Rock #Science #Biology #Paleontology #LivingFossil #AncientSpecies
Discovery of a Lifetime: Student Discovers Ancient “Living Fossil” Underneath Rock
A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa’s arid Karoo region. In March 2022, Stellenbosch University student Rohan Barnard was exploring a farm in the Swartberg...
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June 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Our sensitive teeth likely evolved from the armor of ancient fish #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #DentalHealth #AncientSpecies
Our sensitive teeth likely evolved from the armor of ancient fish
A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into something cold, can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient, armored fish.
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May 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Ancient three-eyed ‘sea moth’ used its butt to breathe #Science #Biology #Paleontology #Evolution #AncientSpecies
Ancient three-eyed ‘sea moth’ used its butt to breathe
Despite centuries of digging, paleontologists are still unearthing new flora and fauna preserved for millennia in rocks. Case in point, the newly discovered Mosura fentoni. This 506-million-year-old predator...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Ancient, water-loving rhinos gathered in big, hippolike herds #Science #Biology #Zoology #Rhinos #Paleontology #AncientSpecies
Ancient, water-loving rhinos gathered in big, hippolike herds
Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.
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April 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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From Fossils to Fur: The Dire Wolf’s Stunning Comeback
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Scientists Bring Back the Dire Wolf After 10,000 Years
The Dire Wolf Returns: A Leap in De-Extinction Science In a groundbreaking achievement, Colossal Biosciences has successfully brought the dire
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April 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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New fossil fills crucial gap in pterosaur evolution: Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three dimensions.

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New fossil fills crucial gap in pterosaur evolution
Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three dimensions.
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November 21, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Day 6: Trapdoors: Audouin's trapdoor spiders (Ummidia audouini) build burrows in the ground from which to ambush prey. They also retreat to them for safety, holding the lid shut from beneath. #bekindtospidersweek #bekindtospidersweek2024 #trapdoorspider #ancientspecies #arthistoryscienceandmystery
April 6, 2024 at 1:10 PM