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Did our long-lost hominin cousins venture deep underground to dig graves for their dead, or is there still a mystery lurking in Rising Star Cave?

Paleontologists discovered the fossils of four extinct saber-toothed cats, including two new species, that roamed South Africa five million years ago.

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Dinosaurs evolved to birds over millions of years, changing from cold-blooded from warm-blooded in the process. A new study has reported that warm-blooded animals have larger nasal cavities than cold-blooded ones, which could help cool their larger brains (relative to head size). Specifically, it reported finding the long-sought physiological function…

A new study sheds fresh light on how ants provide food, shelter and defense for an entire colony.

The fossil sheds new light on the behavior of early mammals in relation to their dinosaur contemporaries.

It’s the first time that scientists have proved that pre-Homo-sapiens species of humans had developed sophisticated woodworking skills

Mammal Repenomamus robustus, the size of a domestic cat, was found attacking a dinosaur, Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, 125 million years ago in China. This fossil suggests that Mesozoic food webs were more complex than previously thought, as it is the first evidence of a mammal preying on a dinosaur. The fossil…

It made world news last week when a small lake in Canada was chosen as the “Golden Spike” – the location where the emergence of the Anthropocene is most clear. The Anthropocene is the proposed new geological epoch defined by humanity’s impact on the planet.

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The discovery questions the view that dinosaurs roamed the planet unchallenged during the Cretaceous period, researchers say