Today’s Arctic is a land of bitterly cold winters, unceasing summer daylight, and a delicate ecology full of migrating birds. But a revolutionary finding in northern Alaska points to an avian paradise far older than we could have ever known. A wealth of 73-million-year-old fossils, including delicate bones of embryos and hatchlings, shows that birds ...
Every time you wince from savoring ice cream or feel the sting of hot coffee, you are living a legacy 460 million years in development. According to ground-breaking studies, human teeth started as sensory armor on ancient fish, guiding them across the dangerous waters of the Ordovician period rather than tools for chewing. A study ...
Deep under the waters of the Madura Strait, off Java’s coast, archaeologists have made a prehistoric discovery that would turn our knowledge of ancient human migration and survival upside down. Fossilized human remains of Homo erectus, along with bones from elephants, hippos, and even river sharks, tell the picture of a lost world: Sundaland, a ...
Imagine a world where Antarctica wasn’t a frozen wasteland but a lush, river-cut forest teeming with life where dinosaurs, not penguins, roamed under months-long polar darkness. This was Earth 120 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous, when what is now southern Australia sat within the Antarctic Circle. Thanks to groundbreaking research analyzing ancient pollen ...
