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A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification. A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that lived alongside …

And we have known for sure that the armor was around back then, given that we’ve found the skin-derived osteoderms that comprise the armor in Jurassic deposits. But with little more than a rib and a handful of mouth parts to go on, it wasn’t really possible to say much more than that. Until now, that is. Because the new …

Invasive species have a reputation for causing trouble. From the cane toad to the Asian tiger mosquito, these creatures are responsible for disrupting ecosystems worldwide. In the latest invasive species news, a type of parasitic wasp from Europe has been spotted in the U.S. for the first time. Here’s what you should know about it. How Bootanomyia dorsalis Impacts Its …

It looked like a shadow at first — but after several minutes, a rare species of deep-sea shark had swum by an underwater camera 54 times, delighting researchers. The Miami Herald reported on the events, which happened in the Caribbean’s Cayman Islands. A group of scientists, conducting the area’s “first systematic investigation” of deep-sea biodiversity, lowered their camera to a …

A groundbreaking discovery on the Isle of Wight has revealed a new dinosaur species, Istiorachis macarthurae, distinguished by a sail-like structure along its back. This finding challenges previous views on dinosaur evolution and opens new discussions on sexual selection in prehistoric creatures. Identified by Jeremy Lockwood, a retired doctor working on his PhD at the University of Portsmouth, the discovery …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species with a very distinctive feature, a sail-like structure running down its back, the Natural History Museum in London announced on Friday. The bones of Istiorachis macarthurae, named in honor of record-breaking British sailor Ellen MacArthur, were uncovered on the Isle of Wight, a small island just off the south …

LONDON — A former PhD student analyzing 125-million-year-old fossils has made waves with the discovery of a new species of dinosaur that had a sail on its back. The findings, published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology on Friday, relate to fossils originally excavated in the 1970s on the Isle of Wight, a small island off England’s south coast. The …

Georgina Rannard Climate and science correspondent Michael Brown Giraffes in Uganda’s Kidepo Valley Giraffes are one of the world’s most distinct and well-loved creatures, always thought to be one species. But now scientists at the International Union for Conservation of Nature say we can welcome three more species of the world’s tallest mammal. It’s not the first time researchers have …

A tan-brown lizard dashed across sun-warmed rock in coastal Angola and ran straight into the scientific record. It belonged to a trio of day geckos that science had never formally described. The new species, all from Namibia’s neighbor to the north, include the large-spotted Namib day gecko, Rhoptropus megocellus, alongside R. minimus and R. crypticus. They were documented after multi-year …

Named Cordualadensa acorni, the new dragonfly species from Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park represents the only Mesozoic dragonfly for Canada and fills a major 30-million-year gap in the evolutionary history of dragonflies. Cordualadensa acorni. Image credit: Alex Anderson. The fossilized wing of Cordualadensa acorni was discovered in 2023 by an undergraduate student from McGill University during a vertebrate paleontology field course …