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A 2026 study is challenging researchers established thought on origin of humankind traces back to 539 million years ago. Here's how- In 2009, scientists revealed which animal came first on Earth, and the answer was right at the bottom of the sea
- Did violent volcanic eruptions create modern humans? A landmark 2016 study linking the East African Rift Valley to Homo sapiens around 300,000 years ago says they may have
- Jurassic Sharks on Shark Week 2026: When and where to watch the prehistoric special in the US and UK without a cable subscriptionJurassic Sharks Sharks Week: Shark Week 2026 is taking viewers back to the age of prehistoric predators with "Jurassic Sharks." 'Shark Week...29 Jul, 2026, 04.47 PM IST
- Bengaluru's ancient rock older than dinosaurs and Himalayas: 3.4-billion-year-old Peninsular Gneiss in Lalbagh is among Earth's oldest exposed crust; formed before oxygenInside Bengaluru's Lalbagh Botanical Garden stands a rock formation estimated to be between 3.0 and 3.4 billion years old, making it one of...22 Jul, 2026, 04.47 PM IST
- Scientists think they have found Earth’s oldest crash site, and it’s 3 billion years oldThe discovery of Earth’s oldest impact crater may rewrite planetary history. Scientists studying Western Australia’s ancient rock formation...30 Jun, 2026, 10.30 PM IST
- Discovery of 16 human bones changed the course of history. How they survived 40,000 years ago and did climate change made them extinct?A remarkable discovery of 16 bones in Germany's Neander Valley in 1856 challenged prevailing scientific beliefs about human origins. Initia...23 Jun, 2026, 06.54 PM IST
- These 300-million-year-old baby fossils just turned a major evolution theory upside downAncient fossilized babies of crocodile-like predators are rewriting evolutionary history. Previously, scientists believed early land animal...20 Jun, 2026, 01.31 AM IST
- How your blood formed? Scientists say ancient 700-million-year-old single-celled ancestors may still live inside human bloodScientists discover ancient single-celled ancestors still live on in human blood, revealing a 700-million-year evolutionary link hidden ins...28 May, 2026, 06.59 PM IST
- Scientists trace human blood cells back to ancient single-celled ancestorsScientists have uncovered evidence that human blood and immune cells may have evolved from ancient single-celled organisms nearly 700 milli...28 May, 2026, 06.37 AM IST
- A fossil reanalysis just blew up everything we thought we knew about the origins of animal lifeA new fossil study from Brazil is reshaping scientific discussions about the earliest forms of life on Earth. Researchers reexamined micros...13 May, 2026, 05.47 PM IST
- Before dinosaurs, earth had a giant millipede longer than a car: and it was the largest arthropod ever foundArthropleura, a colossal arthropod from the Carboniferous and early Permian periods, has been definitively linked to millipedes through new...06 May, 2026, 06.57 PM IST
- The AI analyzed 1,974 unclassified tracks and raised some very troubling questions about the “bird tracks”New research uses artificial intelligence to analyze ancient footprints. This study suggests bird-like relatives may have existed millions ...29 Apr, 2026, 10.38 AM IST
- How we came to be: Scientists get first look at the evolution of early complex animalsNew fossils discovered in China’s Yunnan province show that complex animal life began millions of years earlier than previously thought, du...03 Apr, 2026, 08.51 AM IST
- Scientists find possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids in IndonesiaArchaeologists in Sulawesi, Indonesia, have unearthed stone tools dating back 1.5 million years, potentially rewriting early human migratio...11 Aug, 2025, 07.15 AM IST
- 560-mn-year-old animal predator named after British naturalist David AttenboroughThe fossil was found in Charnwood Forest near Leicester in central England, where Attenborough used to go fossil hunting.26 Jul, 2022, 06.55 PM IST
- World's first animals caused global warming: StudyThe research, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that 520-540 million years ago, animal life evolved in the ocean and be...02 Jul, 2018, 03.25 PM IST
- Sea sponges are common ancestors of all animals: StudyLondon, Dec 3 (IANS) In what could put an end to a long-standing row over animal evolution, a new research has determined that it is the mo...03 Dec, 2017, 03.42 PM IST
- Early life in India dating 2,000 mn years discoveredBengaluru, Nov 23 (IANS) A city-based geologist has discovered 2,000-million-year-old "prokaryotic" microfossils -- considered to be the ea...23 Nov, 2017, 12.32 PM IST
- Animals caused Earth's first mass extinction, not a catastropheEarth's first mass extinction 540 million years ago was caused not by a meteorite impact or volcanic super-eruption but by the rise of earl...03 Sep, 2015, 04.49 PM IST
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