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Why do humans take so long to grow up compared to other animals and how brain evolution reshaped human development and survival today?Humans take nearly 18 to 25 years to reach full maturity, far longer than most mammals. This slow human growth is driven by brain evolution...
In 2014, first fossil hunt for a freshman in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin led to a new mammal species, which gave science its first new multituberculate in over 100 years, and proved even well-dug fossil sites still hide surprisesA student's first fossil field trip in New Mexico yielded an astonishing discovery: the teeth and jaw fragments of a previously unknown mam...
Enormous octopuses dominated Earth's prehistoric seas over 100 million years agoAncient oceans were once ruled by enormous octopus relatives. New research reveals these early creatures were massive, dominant hunters. Fo...
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...
Animal Communication Is Far More Complex Than We ThoughtMammals use a rich mix of facial cues, body language, and sounds to communicate. This complex system helps them manage social groups, maint...
The Arctic Wasn’t Always Frozen: Fossils Reveal a Lost World of Forests, Rhinos and Nesting DinosaursFossil evidence reveals that the Arctic was once a warm, forested region supporting large mammals such as hornless rhinoceroses and dinosau...
315-million-year-old fossil discovery in Canada suggests Tetrapod may be earliest plant-eaterA new fossil discovery in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is changing scientific views on early plant-eating animals. Named Tyrannoroter h...
Not Sharks or Dinosaurs: The Tiny Ancient Creature With Earth’s Sharpest TeethTiny marine creatures called conodonts, extinct for millions of years, held the title for the sharpest teeth. These eel-like animals had mi...
The sharpest teeth in history didn’t belong to giants — they belonged to something tinyContrary to popular belief, some of history's sharpest teeth belonged to tiny animals, not giants. Scientific research reveals that tooth s...
Mammals may have feasted on dinosaurs once upon a time, claims a new studyThat mammals ate dinosaur meat had been proposed before: another fossil showed a mammal died with dinosaur remains in its gut.
Paleontologists discover 1st 'unmistakable' caecilian fossils of amphibian-like animal- Bovine inspiration to our ancestors' diets: Study
New York, March 27 (IANS) Side-to-side movement of the teeth and jaw bones of mammals, especially cows, helped our earliest ancestors to gr...
Indus Valley Civilization 8,000 years old, not 5,500; ended because of weaker monsoonThe discovery, published in the prestigious 'Nature' journal on May 25, may force a global rethink on the timelines of the so-called 'cradl...
Jurassic period saw fastest mammal evolutionMammals were evolving up to ten times faster in the middle of the Jurassic than they were at the end of the period, coinciding with an expl...
- Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells
The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing.