A 150-million-year-old fossil of a stegosaurus specimen is on display at Sotheby’s in New York. The fossil, named “Apex” by the paleontologist who discovered it, is expected to fetch $4 million to $6 million at auction, making it one of the most expensive fossils ever sold. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption switch caption … Read more
Thescelosaurines were a group of small to medium-sized, herbivorous dinosaurs that inhabited North America during the Late Cretaceous. The recently discovered thescelosaurine species Fona Herzogae shows that these dinosaurs spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. Fona HerzogaePhoto: Jorge Gonzalez. Fona Herzogae lived about 99 million years ago (Cretaceous Period) in the … Read more
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Group of Dongju Zhang/Lanzhou University Excavations in the Baishiya Karst Cave reveal previously unknown details about the life of the Denisovan people on the Tibetan Plateau. Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. CNN — The grasslands, … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. CNN — The grasslands, glaciers and snow-capped peaks of the Tibetan Plateau are breathtaking, but the vast regions of Central Asia are also among the most inhospitable places on Earth. … Read more
Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained. Group of Dongju Zhang (Lanzhou University) For over a century, we’ve had the opportunity to study Neanderthals: their bones, the stuff they left behind, their spread across Eurasia. When we finally sequenced their genome and discovered that we shared a genetic legacy … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — An extinct ribbon-like sea creature the size of a human hand was one of the first animals to develop a precursor to a backbone. Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by using … Read more
Researchers identified a prehistoric marine reptile found in 1935 as a thalattosaur and not a choristodere, using CT scans and a new specimen. Reconstruction of Pachystrofeus rhaeticuspictured next to a hybodont shark feeding on a Birgeria fish. Credit: James Ormiston Scientists have reclassified a prehistoric marine reptile discovered in 1935 as one of the last … Read more
Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone from a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as ‘the mother of us all’. During a celebration after her discovery, she was named ‘Lucy’ after the Beatles song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. Although … Read more
Scientists have discovered a 246-million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile, the oldest of its kind found in the Southern Hemisphere, shedding new light on the early evolution of marine mammals. The largest mass extinction in the fossil record – known as ‘The Great Dying’ – occurred around 252 million years ago, wiping out around 95% … Read more