Radioisotopic ages of newly discovered fossil sites hold clues to evolution of mammals
Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...
Ancient “Life Oasis” in China Survived Earth’s Deadliest Mass Extinction
Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...
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Maple sugaring part of education at Maine Academy of Natural Sciences
The Hinckley school’s sugar shack was one of dozens across the state open during the 42nd Maine Maple Sunday Weekend. FAIRFIELD — For ninth graders at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences ...
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Lewis and Clark's 200-year-old botanical treasures are preserved in Philadelphia
The carefully taped and pressed plants stored in bespoke cabinets in the Academy of Natural Sciences lost their color long ago, but that's understandable. They were plucked from the ground over ...
Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds
Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...
Two-fingered dinosaur discovered in Mongolia with help of N.M. researcher
What has two fingers per hand and just got discovered by an international research team in Mongolia? This guy: Duonychus tsogtbaatari. A new species of therizinosaurus has been discovered in Mongolia.
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Fossil find leads to discovery of new dinosaur species
During the construction of a pipeline in the Gobi Desert of southern Mongolia, a very old fossil was found that has allowed ...
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Researchers Stunned to Find Extremely Rare 125 Million-Yr-Old Fossil of Giant Toxic Scorpion That Lived Alongside Dinosaurs
An extremely rare fossil of an ancient venomous scorpion was unearthed at China's Jehol Biota and was a key species in the ...
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Fossil evidence found of humans domesticating avocados 7,500 years ago
VanDerwarker et al, Early evidence of avocado domestication from El Gigante Rockshelter, Honduras, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2417072122 Journal ...
Research shows that a majority of Christian religious leaders accept the reality of climate change but have never mentioned it to their congregations
Churchgoers who think their religious leaders don’t believe humans are driving climate change are less likely to discuss it ...
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Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
The team published its findings March 31 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... The research was funded by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, the Open Research ...
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Learning to Fly: How a Jurassic Fossil Decodes the History of Flight
Since 2021, paleontologist Wang Min and a team of researchers have spent their days excavating the fossil-rich deposits in Zhenghe ... Their research, conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ...