New Bird-Like Dinosaur Related to Archaeopteryx

A new fossil dinosaur skeleton from China has revised the history of bird evolution. Again. The new dinosaur, Aurornis xui, appears to be related to Archaeopteryx. What's more, the wel...Read More

Three Feathered Tyrannosaurs Discovered

Scientists today announced the spectacular find of three new feathered tyrannosaur skeletons, recently unearthed in China. While smaller than T. rex, the animals are the largest feathered dinosaurs (a...Read More

Woolly Mammoth DNA Adapted for Ice Age Survival

Genetics researchers may not clone a woolly mammoth any time soon but they are learning much about the ice age creatures by studying their DNA. One recent study sequenced the gene for mammoth hemoglob...Read More

Rare Find: Three New Dinosaurs From Australia

Australia has historically not been a great place to find dinosaur skeletons. In fact, it's been almost 30 years since the last large skeleton was discovered, making the recent finding of three new di...Read More

Flute Belonged to Early Humans

New evidence shows humans ancestors from 30,000 years ago were musically proficient. Three flutes from this time period were recently recovered from a cave in Germany. One of the flutes was made from ...Read More

Jurassic Dino Provides Clues to Bird Wing Evolution

A team lead by Chinese paleontologist Xing XU has announced a new dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert. The 155 million year old skeleton may be a link between dinosaurs and birds. S...Read More

Hobbit-Like Human Ancestor Found

In 2004 scientists discovered a small human ancestor on the Indonesian island of Flores. The remains dated about 12,000 years old. Debate has raged about the position of this species in the human fami...Read More

Evolution Can Occur in Less Than Ten Years

How fast can evolution take place? In just a few years, according to a new study on guppies led by UC Riverside’s Swanne Gordon, a graduate student in biology. Gordon and her colleagues...Read More

Gigantic Trilobite Fossils Found in Portugal

Scientists recently announced the discovery of the largest Trilobites ever seen. Trilobites were primitive marine arthropods distantly related to modern-day horseshoe crabs. They lived for millions of...Read More

Woolly Mammoth DNA Sequenced

For the first time, scientists have mapped most of the genetic code of an extinct animal. Researchers from Penn State University today announced they have decoded about eighty percent of the woolly ma...Read More