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
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...
14 Mar, 2026, 03.43 PM IST
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...
18 Feb, 2026, 12.36 PM IST
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...
18 Feb, 2026, 11.58 AM IST
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...
09 Feb, 2026, 03.49 PM IST
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...
05 Feb, 2026, 09.08 PM IST
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.
19 Jul, 2023, 09.00 AM IST
Paleontologists discover 1st 'unmistakable' caecilian fossils of amphibian-like animal29 Jan, 2023, 10.35 PM IST
- 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...
27 Mar, 2017, 05.05 PM IST
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...
29 May, 2016, 11.25 AM IST
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...
20 Jul, 2015, 05.45 PM IST
- 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.
07 Jul, 2010, 11.50 AM IST