Biggest Fossil Spider Found
The 165-million-year-old species is a relative of today’s large web weavers. The largest fossil spider uncovered to date once ensnared prey back in the age of dinosaurs, scientists find.
The biggest known fossil spider named Nephila jurassica, [...]
‘Walking cactus’ rewrites arthropod odyssey
FOSSILS of a bizarre animal dubbed the ‘walking cactus’ have shed light on the evolution of crabs and spiders, Chinese researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
Specimens found in 2006 in rocks in the Jianshan area [...]
2 new dinosaur species discovered in southern Utah
Scientists said Wednesday they’ve discovered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species closely related to the Triceratops, including one with 15 horns on its large head.
The discovery of the new plant-eating species [...]
Animals can be gay
Darwin negatedNew research suggests that animals can be gay too, defying Darwin’s theory that the sexual impulses of animals are designed to cause reproduction and are therefore necessarily heterosexual.
The research, conducted on [...]
Who came first? Hen or Egg?
The answer is “Hen!” “Yes, Chicks before eggs!”. You have read it correctly: The Chicken may have come before…
British researchers may have uncovered a partial answer to the age-old question, “what came first [...]
Galápagos giant tortoise saved from extinction by breeding programme
Reintroduction of species that Charles Darwin saw raises conservation hopes for other wildlife
Scientists have successfully reintroduced giant tortoises to a Galápagos island where the species once teetered on extinction, raising conservation [...]
New hominid moves back date of walking upright
Scientists may have found the great, great, great, etc., grandfather of the famous fossil Lucy.
A new partial skeleton of an early hominid known as Australopithecus afarensis was discovered in a mud flat of the Afar region of Ethiopia.
Dated [...]
Ancient climate change ‘link’ to CO2
A “global pattern” of change in the Earth’s climate began 2.7 million years ago, say scientists.
Researchers found that, at this point, temperature patterns in the tropics slipped into step with patterns of Ice Ages in the [...]
World’s oldest leather shoe found in Armenian cave
The world’s oldest leather shoe, 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in Britain, has been found perfectly preserved in a cave in Armenia.
The 5,500-year-old shoe was discovered [...]
Dinosaurs swallowed stones as digestive pills: Researcher
Dinosaurs swallowed stones as digestive pills more than 6.5 crore years ago in the Narmada Valley, a researcher has said.
Apart from eggs, fossils of the extinct dinosaurs we have recovered have 120 small shining stones of 2.5 diametre, in [...]
