Discoveries
Orangutans can communicate about the past just like humans, new research finds
Discovering that orangutans can communicate about things that happened in the past provides new clues to how human language evolved.
one month agoCollection of news articles related to earth science from uncovered fossils to new species - read about the latest discoveries in the animal kingdom.
Discoveries
How a change in climate wiped out the 'Siberian unicorn'
The loss of the 'Siberian unicorn' shows just how vulnerable some animals can be to environmental change that can impact on their food supply.
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Discoveries
How a plateau of headless reindeer and scavenger poop became a field lab for studying an ecosystem
From the deaths of over 300 reindeer sprouts new life on Norway’s Hardangervidda mountain plateau.
5 months ago
Fossils
Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
A new study of an ancient fossil has found it to be the earliest lizard known, so far. It shows they survived one the greatest mass extinctions on...
7 months ago
Fossils
It's less than 2cm long, but this 400-million-year-old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
A 400-million-year-old fossilised fish skull gives us very early and previously unknown clues about how boney fishes evolved into the vertebrates we...
7 months ago
Sharks
'Hidden sharks': how we found a new way to detect them
Sleuthing scientists are using environmental DNA to help figure out which sharks swim where.
8 months ago
New Species
This adorable, thumbnail-sized pygmy squid is a new species
New to science: the Hallam's pygmy squid, officially known as Idiosepius hallami.
11 months ago
Fossils
This giant tortoise was chomped by an ancient mystery croc
A prehistoric murder mystery...
11 months ago
Fossils
That time a prehistoric shark took a bite out of a turd
The one-of-a-kind story of an ancient shark that broke a tooth off on a croc turd.
one year ago
New Species
New species discoveries from the unique and threatened Greater Mekong
Two fish, three mammals, 11 amphibians, 11 reptiles and 88 plants.
one year ago
Discoveries
Found in amber: Ticks with a taste for dinosaur blood!
Step aside, mosquito. This piece of Burmese amber has a tick inside – still grasping onto the feather of its dinosaur host.
one year ago
Discoveries
Tasmanian tigers were going extinct before we pushed them over the edge
The new Tasmanian tiger genome reveals some fascinating facts about this extinct marsupial...
one year ago
Discoveries
Tiny jumping spider snags a tadpole in India's Western Ghats
Jumping spiders are spry little hunters, but they weren't known to tackle vertebrate victims – until recently. A new paper documents a potentially...
one year ago
Discoveries
New details on the lives and deaths of frozen Ice Age kittens
Research on the remains of Siberia's famous cave lion cubs has revealed new details about their very short lives.
one year ago
Fossils
Hundreds of fossilised eggs reveal the nesting habits of ancient flying reptiles
Some of the eggs even had the remains of pterosaur embryos preserved inside!
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