Norway on Saturday said it would boost protection of a seed storage vault designed to protect the world's crops from disaster, after soaring temperatures caused water to leak into its entrance. Situated deep inside a mountain on a remote Arctic island in a Norwegian archipelago, ...
The bone-crunching bite of Tyrannosaurus rex was like no other, according to a study released Wednesday that solidifies the fabled carnivore's reputation as the most fearsome of dinosaurs. T. rex could not only crack the biggest of bones, it could also pulverize and ingest them, ...
High-tech dating of mastodon remains found in Southern California has shattered the timeline of human migration to America, pushing the presence of hominins back to 130,000 years ago rather than just 15,000 years, researchers said Wednesday. Teeth and bones of the elephant-like creature unmistakably modified ...
Scientists have identified the oldest-known forerunner of the dinosaurs and are expressing surprise at how little it resembled one. Researchers on Wednesday described fossils of a long-necked, four-legged, meat-eating reptile called Teleocrater rhadinus that reached up to 10 feet (3 meters) long and prowled a ...
When early humans, including our species, ate their own kind it was more likely for ritual purposes than for a nourishing meal, according to an unusual study released Thursday. Carving up the human body to calculate the caloric value of each part, the study argues ...
A 40,000 year old piece of raven bone that was etched with near-even lines suggests Neanderthals had an eye for aesthetics, French researchers said Wednesday. Neanderthals, who were cousins of modern men and who disappeared some 38,000 years ago, are known to have used pigments ...
What is the difference between birds that get killed by cars, and those that don't? The dead ones tend to have smaller brains, said scientists who performed 3,521 avian autopsies. What might be called the "bird brain rule" applies to different species, depending on the ratio ...
Chinese police have arrested a man accused of stealing dozens of fossilized dinosaur eggs, state media said Monday, but some eggs are still unaccounted for. The man surnamed Wang allegedly stole 80 eggs from a collector in Zhejiang province on the night of Jan. 9 ...
aris For 130 years, dinosaurs have been classified as either bird- or reptile-hipped — the first and all-important split in the trunk of an intricate family tree. On Wednesday, a "revolutionary" study threatened to upend what has long been taken as gospel by preschoolers and paleontologists ...
Charles Darwin certainly did not consider it a sin to kill a mockingbird. The 19th-century English biologist killed many of the birds whilst on board the HMS Beagle survey ship as he traveled around the world. The specimens are more important than you might ...
The first naturally fluorescent frog was discovered recently in Argentina — almost by chance, a member of the team of researchers said Thursday. Argentine and Brazilian scientists at the Bernardino Rivadaiva Natural Sciences Museum made the discovery while studying the metabolic origin of pigments in ...
Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all depended on where they lived, new research shows. Scientists got a sneak peek into the kitchen of three Neanderthals ...
