Lost world of birds and frogs: Scientists open a million-year-old cave time capsule in New Zealand, where 12 bird species and four frogs reveal a lost world reshaped by volcanoes and climate long before humans arrivedA remarkable fossil discovery in a New Zealand cave has unveiled a lost world of ancient birds and frogs, dating back one million years. Th...
24 Jun, 2026, 04.47 PM IST
For millions of years, this ancient fish was thought extinct since the age of the dinosaurs—until it was found alive in South Africa and changed science foreverA chance discovery in South Africa in 1938 unveiled a 'living fossil' – a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, since the age of dinos...
22 Jun, 2026, 12.58 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
Scientists discover ancient Antarctic fish fossil with a perfectly preserved skullA remarkable fish fossil from Antarctica offers a clear view of early evolution. Koharalepis jarviki, a 380-million-year-old specimen, reve...
11 May, 2026, 09.20 AM IST
Not Sharks. Not T. Rex. Scientists Just Confirmed the Sharpest Teeth in All of Natural History Belonged to a Tiny Ancient Creature Most People Have Never Heard OfScientific research revealed that ancient eel-like creatures called conodonts possessed highly effective cutting structures in their teeth,...
01 May, 2026, 06.29 PM IST
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...
01 May, 2026, 03.26 PM IST
How Evolution Shaped Consciousness in AnimalsScientists now believe consciousness is not exclusive to humans. Research suggests it evolved gradually in animals, allowing them to evalua...
16 Apr, 2026, 03.35 PM IST
Why Some Animals Live Alone While Others Form Complex Societies: The Genetic FactorRecent studies reveal that changes in gene regulation, not just gene sequences, are crucial for the evolution of animal social behavior. Co...
14 Mar, 2026, 04.03 PM IST
Scientists Just Found One of the Earliest Flying Reptiles in North AmericaA significant fossil find in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park reveals North America's oldest pterosaur. This 209-million-year-old f...
12 Mar, 2026, 04.24 PM IST
The 400-Year-Old Shark: How the Greenland Shark Outlives Every Mammal on EarthScientists have discovered the Greenland shark, a creature living in frigid Arctic waters. This shark is now recognized as the longest-livi...
21 Feb, 2026, 01.21 PM IST
The world’s oldest vertebrates had four eyes, scientists reveal in stunning discoveryFossils of the prehistoric fish genus myllokunmingiid, more than 518 million years old, reveal that early vertebrates may have had four fun...
18 Feb, 2026, 08.41 PM 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
- Fossil research discovers growth mystery of world's earliest trees
Beijing, Oct 24 (IANS) A joint research project by scientists from China, Britain and the US has discovered how the earliest trees on earth...
24 Oct, 2017, 08.17 PM IST
First land animals shuffled like sealsThe world's first 3D reconstruction of a four-legged animal backbone has shown that the early animals on land moved around like seals.
14 Jan, 2013, 05.49 PM IST