Chicken-sized dinosaur hunted at night
The odd little dinosaur dubbed Shuvuuia had incredible hearing and vision.
A little dinosaur called Shuvuuia may have hunted in the dark using night vision and super hearing. This chicken-s...
History
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Oldest human burial in Africa unearthed
Discovery sheds light on the evolution of modern human behaviour.
About 78,000 years ago, at the mouth of a yawning cave complex in today’s south-eastern Kenya, someone placed the bod...
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Genome of resurrected plant is sequenced for the first time ever
2000-year-old seeds of extinct Judean date palm shows Roman influence in Middle East.
For the first time ever, scientists have sequenced the genome of a resurrected plant that went extinct 2000 years ago...
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Conversation
The First Australians grew to a population of millions
The number is much more than previous estimates.
By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Alan N Williams, UNSW; Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Kasih Norm...
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Modelling the ‘superhighways’ travelled by First Australians
New mapping of landscapes and populations sheds light on the peopling of Australia.
Indigenous Australians have long pointed out that their ancestors have lived on and cared for this continent since ti...
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How mammals evolved big brains
Brain proportions were driven by body size and cataclysmic events.
Scientists have now pieced together a 150-million-year timeline to determine how mammals evolved big brains. An in...
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Extinct “horned” crocodile’s ancestry revealed
DNA analysis suggests it was a true crocodile.
Ancient DNA analysis has solved a key mystery in the family tree of crocodiles, researchers say, historically an incr...
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How did T. rex break bones with its bite?
3D modelling suggests it chomped like an alligator by anchoring its jaw in place.
The Tyrannosaurus rex might be known for its ferocity and its mouth full of serrated teeth, but how did it actually b...
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Fossils of extinct “giant cloud rats” found in the Philippines
Surprise discovery suggests the region was more diverse than previously thought.
Piecing together fossil remains of jaws and teeth in the Philippines, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of three...
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How fast was a T. rex?
The king of dinosaurs may have walked as slow as a human.
Walking speed of a T-rex. Credit: Rick Stikkelorum, Arthur Ulmann & Pasha van Bijlert The Tyrannosaurus rex may ha...
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Research
The Great Dying was longer on land
Earth’s biggest mass extinction took ten times longer on land than in oceans.
New research published in the journal PNAS has found that, while life in the ocean rapidly disappeared during the Gre...
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History
Nils Aall Barricelli
The Italian-Norwegian mathematician was a genuine original.
In March 2003, science and technology historian George Dyson gave a typically entertaining TED talk about the creatio...