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  • 14.6-Million-Year-Old Bee Fossil Found in New Zealand

    05/26/2025 10:42:25 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    Sci News ^ | February 7, 2025 | Natali Anderson
    Paleontologists have described a new species of the extant bee genus Leioproctus from a fossil specimen found in southern New Zealand.Named Leioproctus barrydonovani, the new species lived during the Middle Miocene epoch, some 14.6 million years ago.The ancient insect belongs to Leioproctus, a large genus within the plasterer bee family Colletidae.Extant Leioproctus species are small, black, hairy bees between 4 and 16 mm in length.They are found in Australasia and South America, and include the most common native bees in New Zealand...The specimen (total length of the body is 6.4 mm) was recovered from the Middle Miocene deposits of the...
  • Human origin story may need rewriting after discovery of 8.7-million-year-old fossil

    08/24/2023 11:38:57 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 50 replies
    Daily Express US (via MSN.com) ^ | 24 August 2023 | Ian Randall
    Prof. Begun said: "Our findings further suggest that hominines [bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas] not only evolved in western and central Europe - but spent over five million years evolving there and spreading to the eastern Mediterranean before eventually dispersing into Africa."....This migration, he added, was "probably a consequence of changing environments and diminishing forests."
  • Mystery solved: the oldest fossil reptile from the alps is an historical forgery

    02/16/2024 10:34:30 AM PST · by Red Badger · 44 replies
    University College Cork ^ | 16 Feb 2024 | Staff
    Dr Valentina Rossi of University College Cork, Ireland, who led the research team which discovered that a 280-million-year-old lizard fossil is, in part, a forgery. (Image credit: Zixiao Yang) A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be, in part, a forgery following new examination of the remnants. The discovery has led the team led by Dr Valentina Rossi of University College Cork, Ireland (UCC) to urge caution in how the fossil is used in future research. Tridentinosaurus antiquus was discovered in the Italian alps in 1931 and was thought to be an important specimen...
  • Scientists discover 240-million-year-old dinosaur that resembles a "mythical Chinese dragon"

    02/23/2024 8:56:01 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    CBS News ^ | February 23, 2024 | Caitlin O'Kane
    A team of international scientists have discovered 240-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period in China that one scientist described as a "long and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon." The 16-foot-long aquatic reptile, called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, has 32 separate neck vertebrae – an extremely long neck, according to the National Museums of Scotland, which announced the news on Friday. The new fossil has a snake-like appearance and flippers and was found in the Guizhou Province of southern China. Dinocephalosaurus orientalis was first identified in 2003 when its skull was found, but this more complete fossil discovery has "allowed scientists to depict the...
  • 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman's Facial Reconstruction Sheds New Light on Our Archaic Human Ancestors

    05/03/2024 11:17:40 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 128 replies
    The Debrief ^ | May 3, 2024 | CHRISSY NEWTON
    In 2018, a female Neanderthal was discovered in the Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. Now, archaeologists from The University of Cambridge have unveiled the reconstructed face of the 75,000-year-old woman, based on the assembly of hundreds of individual bone fragments recovered during excavations. “Neanderthals have had a bad press ever since the first ones were found over 150 years ago,” said Professor Graeme Barker from Cambridge’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, who led the excavation at the cave where the woman’s remains were discovered. Neanderthals are believed to have become extinct around 40,000 years ago, and discoveries of their remains...
  • Monstrous “Hell Ant” That Thrived 113 Million Years Ago Revealed in Oldest Fossil of Its Kind Ever Discovered

    04/25/2025 7:03:00 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 66 replies
    The Debrief ^ | April 24, 2025 | Kenna Hughes-Castleberry
    Ants are among the most familiar insects on Earth today, but their origins remain cloaked in deep evolutionary history. Until now, the oldest known ant specimens came from amber deposits in France and Myanmar, dating to the Cretaceous period around 100 million years ago. But a new discovery—published recently in the journal Current Biology—pushes that timeline back even further. “Our team has discovered a new fossil ant species representing the earliest undisputable geological record of ants,” said lead author Anderson Lepeco in a recent statement. “What makes this discovery particularly interesting is that it belongs to the extinct ‘hell ant,’...
  • Which Dinosaur Was the Fastest? New Simulations Reveal Surprising Speed

    04/29/2025 7:05:00 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | April 30, 2025 | Hadia Zahid
    Scientists have been wondering for years which dinosaur could run the fastest. Now, new simulation models are offering a fresh look at dinosaur speed. This renewed interest has roots in a major discovery from 1964, when paleontologist John Ostrom and his team uncovered Deinonychus—a dinosaur with a lightweight body, long claws, and strong legs. Its features challenged the long-held image of dinosaurs as sluggish reptiles and instead pointed to an active, fast-moving predator. This discovery helped launch what scientists call the “dinosaur renaissance,” a major shift in how experts understood dinosaur behavior. Instead of slow-moving reptiles, some dinosaurs began to...
  • 2 Corinthians 10:5, A Prayer—Darwinian Evolution, an Idol of Man’s Imagination

    05/13/2025 7:24:32 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 26 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | May 13, 2025 | Linda Kimball
    “Why is it that man ever chooses to sin? The answer is that man has fallen away from God (and) his whole nature has become perverted and sinful. Man’s whole bias is away from God. By nature he hates God and feels that God is opposed to him. His god is himself…his own abilities and powers and desires (Man) likes and covets the things which God prohibits, and dislikes the things and kind of life to which God calls him. These are no mere dogmatic statements. They are facts (that) alone explain the moral muddle and the ugliness that characterize...
  • What did dinosaurs sound like?

    05/24/2025 8:14:55 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 41 replies
    bbc ^ | 05/23/2025 | Richard Gray
    There is no single answer to this puzzle. Dinosaurs dominated the planet for around 179 million years and during that time, evolved into an enormous array of different shapes and sizes. Some were tiny, like the diminutive Albinykus, which weighed under a kilogram (2.2lbs) and was probably less than 2ft (60cm) long. Others were among the biggest animals to have ever lived on land, such as the titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum, which may have weighed up to 72 tonnes. They ran on two legs, or plodded on four. And along with these diverse body shapes, they would have produced an equally...