Could Life on Earth Be Older Than We Thought? Scientists Find Clues in 3.3 Billion-Year-Old RocksScientists have unearthed faint chemical traces in rocks over 3.3 billion years old, potentially representing Earth's earliest biological e...
13 Mar, 2026, 09.59 PM IST
A New Study Suggests Life May Have Appeared on Earth Much Earlier Than Scientists Once ThoughtScientists have found chemical evidence of life on Earth from over 3.3 billion years ago. This discovery pushes back the timeline for life'...
08 Mar, 2026, 02.57 PM IST
Scientists Say the Most Powerful Fossils Aren’t Bones They’re Footprints Frozen in TimeFossilized footprints, not bones, offer profound insights into ancient life, revealing movement, social behaviors, and even courtship ritua...
20 Feb, 2026, 03.07 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
130-million-year-old oceans dominated by super predators at unprecedented trophic levels, far surpassing modern marine apex speciesAncient oceans teemed with massive marine reptiles, some over ten metres long. These creatures occupied a previously unknown seventh level ...
20 Dec, 2025, 02.43 PM IST
Real-life Jurassic Park? Ancient rhino proteins found — dino discoveries may be comingScientists have extracted 24-million-year-old protein sequences from a rhino tooth discovered in the Canadian Arctic, surpassing the age li...
17 Jul, 2025, 01.53 AM IST
Argentina and Chile new economic superpowers? Vicuña mineral discovery marks largest copper, gold, and silver findA major mineral deposit discovered in the Andes Mountains along the Argentina-Chile border contains significant quantities of copper, gold,...
30 Jun, 2025, 12.49 PM IST
Paleontological Breakthrough: Evidence Shows Three-Toed Ankylosaurs Roamed North America 100 Million Years AgoThe footprints in question were found in both British Columbia and Alberta. They were phenomenal in the sense that the samples represented ...
16 Apr, 2025, 08.43 PM IST
Dinosaurus fossil discovered in North Dakota, film to be released soonDinosaurus fossil, that of Tyrannosaurus rex, was unearthed in North Dakota. A documentary film is all set to be released.
04 Jun, 2024, 08.11 PM IST
Natural Hydrogen could change the world, if we understood itA rising trend of wildcatters finding seeps of natural hydrogen is challenging the conventional wisdom that pure hydrogen is rare in nature...
01 Aug, 2023, 07.17 AM IST
Fossils found in Alberta, ground zero for dinosaur discoveries, may reveal new facts about their evolutionThe most significant specimens tended to come from the badlands along the Red Deer River.
04 Feb, 2023, 05.40 PM IST
From the 1888 mix-up to the no-posthumous-honour rule, 5 interesting facts about the NobelThe winners of this year's prizes will be announced from Monday onwards.
01 Oct, 2022, 05.54 PM IST
Canadian gold miners discover rare mummified baby woolly mammoth with skin and hairMembers of the local Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation named the calf Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal."
28 Jun, 2022, 04.07 PM IST
2019: More bird mysteries unravelled as warming hit avian flightRevelations that bird species across the world are shrinking in size, and that the North American continent has lost a quarter of its avian...
31 Dec, 2019, 02.50 PM IST
- Tyrannosaurs face was covered in scaly protective layer: Study
New York, April 1 (IANS) The face of tyrannosaurs was covered in a scaly protective layer with a high degree of tactile sensitivity, simila...
01 Apr, 2017, 04.30 PM IST
Galaxy that spits out 800 new stars every year discoveredThe discovery is the first to show that gigantic galaxies at the centre of massive clusters can grow significantly by feeding off gas stole...
11 Sep, 2015, 03.40 PM IST