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T. rex's long legs were made for marathon walking
Long legs may make good runners, but they're great for walking, too. Scientists have generally assumed that long-limbed dinosaurs evolved their leggy proportions for speed to catch prey and avoid...
The strange story behind the most notorious video of the coronavirus era
'Plandemic' director Mikki Willis explains why he made the controversial coronavirus documentary.
Paleontologists have identified the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe
Alongside ancient homo sapiens remains were bladelike tools and bear tooth pendants. Researchers believe Neanderthals may have copied these designs later on. (CREDIT: TSENKA TSANOVA, MPI-EVA LEIPZIG, LICENSE: CC-BY-SA 2.0/)Modern humans roamed central...
Microscopic feather features reveal fossil birds' colors and explain why cassowaries shine
Cassowaries are big flightless birds with blue heads and dinosaur-looking feet; they look like emus that time forgot, and they're objectively terrifying. They're also, along with their ostrich and kiwi...
Thunderbirds will fly over Southern California honoring coronavirus workers
California workers on the front lines of the coronavirus fight will be honored from the sky during two military salutes this week.
Researchers trace evolution of self-control
Human self-control evolved in our early ancestors, becoming particularly evident around 500,000 years ago when they developed the skills to make sophisticated tools, a new study suggests.
How did the old masters make their ultramarine?
Researchers at the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have developed a method that reveals how the costly pigment ultramarine was prepared...
Early humans in China innovated technology to adapt to climate change one million years ago
To assess the degree to which early stone tool using hominins modified their tool manufacturing behaviours in Eastern Asia, Shixia Yang and colleagues examined three well-known archaeological sites from the...
New Research Launched on Airborne Virus Transmission in Buildings
As society prepares to reopen indoor spaces and ease back into some sense of normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National...
Why women leaders are excelling during the coronavirus pandemic
Since the beginning of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there's been a lot of media attention paid to the relationship between female leaders at the helm of various nations and the...
Desert mystery: Why have pronghorn antelope returned to Death Valley?
More than a century after railroads, ranchers and hunters vanquished their ancestors, pronghorn antelope are returning to this unforgiving expanse of desert along the California-Nevada border.
Prehistoric anchovy-like fish had large fangs and a saber tooth
A small international team of researchers has found that two prehistoric anchovy-like fish had fangs and a saber tooth. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science,...
Dozens of prehistoric, Roman and medieval sites discovered by archaeology volunteers working at home during lockdown
Dozens of previously unrecorded Roman, prehistoric and medieval sites have been discovered by archaeology volunteers based at home during the coronavirus lockdown.
How the Earth's last supercontinent broke apart to form the world we have today
Pangaea was the Earth's latest supercontinent—a vast amalgamation of all the major landmasses. Before Pangaea began to disintegrate, what we know today as Nova Scotia was attached to what seems...
Dinosaur Footprints on a Cave Ceiling
The footprints of sauropods, thirty-metre-long herbivorous dinosaurs, have been found on the roof of a cave located beneath the Causse Méjean plateau, in southeastern France. CNRS News talked to the...
Fossil footprints found in Sydney suburb are from the earliest swimming tetrapods in Australia
Fossil footprints discovered nearly 80 years ago in a sandstone quarry at Berowra have been identified as the traces of a four-legged animal swimming in a river nearly a quarter...
Need a stuffed crocodile? This B.C. museum has 2 of those for sale, and a lot more
A museum in B.C.’s Interior has put its entire collection, including hundreds of preserved animals up for auction online.
She organized California's back-to-work protests, but now she's calling it quits
Anti-lockdown protests have erupted all over California. Now, an organizer of the protests, under scrutiny from the media, is bowing out.
Ancient reptile had mammal-like tooth enamel
A new study by paleontologists shows that one type of ancient reptiles evolved a special type of tooth enamel, similar to that of mammals, with high resistance to wear and...
Remnants of human migration paths exist underwater at 'choke points'
A study shows evidence vital to understanding human prehistory beneath the seas in places that were dry during the Last Glacial Maximum. This paper informs one of the 'hottest mysteries'...
Geometry guided construction of earliest known temple, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge
Researchers have now used architectural analysis to discover that geometry informed the layout of Göbekli Tepe's impressive round stone structures and enormous assembly of limestone pillars, which they say were...
Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth 2 billion years ago
Earth may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously thought, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life, according to new research.
Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth two billion years ago
Earth may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously thought, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life, according to new research by scientists at...
Geometry guided construction of earliest known temple, built 6,000 years before Stonehenge
The sprawling 11,500-year-old stone Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, is the earliest known temple in human history and one of the most important discoveries of Neolithic research.
Air National Guard flyovers today salute California's essential coronavirus workers
A sky-high salute will honor California's workers on the front lines in the battle against the coronavirus on Wednesday.
Edward Nino Hernandez breaks world's shortest living man record
Edward Nino Hernandez, of Colombia, is the world's shortest man, Guinness World Records said.
Scientists uncover oldest bones of our species ever found in Europe
Human bones from a Bulgarian cave suggest our species arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought, sharing the continent much longer with Neanderthals.
Strange hollow buckyballs found in 80-million-year-old fossils
Scientists from The University of Western Australian and University of Cambridge have made a chance discovery in UK museum collections, finding hollow ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils from species believed...