Ancient Fossils

AI AI helps scientists read dinosaur footprints, offering new clues to ancient life

Dinosaur footprints outnumber bones, but they are hard to interpret. A new AI study reveals how machine learning can help identify who made them.

Discoveries Metabolites preserved in fossil bones reveal ancient diets, diseases, and habitats Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Two ancient cousins of Lucy walked on two legs in different ways Mac Oliveau

Discoveries Dinosaur eggshells are accurate timekeepers of fossil age, study finds Mac Oliveau

Discoveries Decades old T. rex debate ends with stunning discovery Joshua Shavit

Discoveries Two 150-million-year-old baby pterosaurs changed what we know about life and death Joshua Shavit

Discoveries Million-year-old sea crossing near ‘Hobbit’s’ island rewrites early human history Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Rare prehistoric ‘Sword Dragon’ reptile unearthed in the UK Joseph Shavit

Green Impact Earth’s first animals may have been sea sponges, study finds Mac Oliveau

Discoveries Million-year-old skull discovery rewrites the story of human evolution Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Million-year-old microbes found in mammoths reveal new purpose for DNA

Discoveries Fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon reveals a sea world teeming with strange prehistoric life

Discoveries New species of ancient humans rewrites the story of early human evolution

Health Ancient tooth fossil reveals humans have been getting high for over 4,000 years

Discoveries Dinosaur tracks reveal mixed species travelled together in herds like modern mammals

Discoveries Denisovan jawbone discovery unlocks secrets of ancient human migration