In 2024, A New York homeowner was mowing the lawn and strange “baseballs” in the grass revealed an Ice Age Mastodon jaw beneath the yardDuring a routine lawn mowing session in Orange County in 2024, a homeowner made a remarkable discovery that reshaped their understanding of...
18 May, 2026, 03.26 PM IST
What construction workers discovered beneath a South Dakota housing site became one of North America’s richest mammoth fossil localitiesIn 1974, construction workers in Hot Springs, South Dakota, unearthed a significant Ice Age fossil site. The discovery revealed numerous ma...
13 May, 2026, 07.06 PM IST
When a 9-year-old tripped in the New Mexico desert, he accidentally uncovered the remains of an ancient elephant relative from 1.2 million years agoA remarkable fossil discovery in New Mexico, made by a 9-year-old boy, has unearthed a 1.2-million-year-old stegomastodon skull. This chanc...
12 May, 2026, 07.05 PM IST
Rainbow coloured phantom lakes appear beside Namibia’s Great White Place in stunning satellite imagesAstronauts captured a stunning display of vibrant, shimmering lakes in Namibia's Etosha Pan, a rare event following heavy flooding. These e...
08 May, 2026, 05.21 PM IST
Neanderthal babies may have grown at surprisingly rapid speeds compared with modern humansScientists unearthed a Neanderthal infant, Amud 7, in Israel. Its bones and brain were larger than expected for its age. This suggests Nean...
08 May, 2026, 03.32 PM IST
Archaeologists discover early humans built vast island networks across the PhilippinesNew findings show ancient Filipinos were not isolated. They actively sailed across open oceans thousands of years ago. Mindoro island holds...
20 Apr, 2026, 02.09 PM IST
From Dirt to Discovery: How Cave Sediments Are Revealing Ice Age Species Without BonesResearchers are now analyzing ancient DNA found in soil to identify extinct species, revolutionizing prehistoric ecosystem research. This i...
09 Apr, 2026, 05.23 PM IST
Half a Million Years Underwater: Scientists Discover Rare Ice Age Fossils in FloridaDivers found a sinkhole in Florida's Steinhatchee River. It holds fossils from nearly half a million years ago. These ancient remains belon...
20 Mar, 2026, 11.35 AM IST
The 9,000-Year-Old Forest That Is Technically One Single TreeHigh in Sweden's mountains, a Norway spruce named Old Tjikko reveals a root system over 9,000 years old, challenging our understanding of i...
02 Mar, 2026, 04.07 PM IST
'Game of Thrones' dire wolves return after 12,000 years: How researchers brought them backColossal Biosciences has achieved a scientific breakthrough by breeding three wolf pups resembling the extinct dire wolves. Born in a seclu...
08 Apr, 2025, 08.48 AM IST
300,000-year-old 'giant stone tools' discovered in KentA senior geo-archaeologist at the UCL Institute of Archaeology named Letty Ingrey describes the tools as ‘giants’ when they are anywhere ab...
06 Jul, 2023, 05.08 PM IST
Ancient human ancestor likely survived through Ice AgeAn ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age, a 14,000 year-ol...
18 Dec, 2015, 01.30 PM IST
Retreating ice behind population explosion in Adelie penguins?The penguin population in East Antarctica is 135 times larger now than it was when the last ice age ended around 19,000 years ago.
18 Nov, 2015, 03.18 PM IST
- Retreating ice behind population explosion in Adelie penguins?
Adelie penguins may be benefiting from shrinking glaciers, according to a new study that found the population of the species in East Antarc...
18 Nov, 2015, 01.55 PM IST
Rapid climate change led to decline of ice age trees: StudyShort, sharp fluctuations in the Earth's climate throughout the last ice age may have stopped trees from establishing themselves in Europe ...
20 May, 2013, 03.12 PM IST
- Making science fiction a reality show may not be wise
Unfortunately, if the world itself ends this year or very soon, as some ancient texts have predicted, all this will come to nought.
23 Feb, 2012, 04.22 AM IST
Does warming have species on the run?Land ecosystems will have to move hundreds of metres each year in order to cope with global warming, according to a letter published in the...
25 Dec, 2009, 11.34 AM IST