Our Ancestors Lived in Pairs More Than 65 Million Years Ago

Scientists hypothesize from genetic studies that, more than 65 million years ago ... lived in trees and weighed less than 200 grams. Up until recently, scientists also suggested that this primate ... Read More

Human ancestors probably lost their tails 25 million years ago — and a strange ‘jumping gene’ may explain why

Apes too used to have a tail but for some mysterious reason, our lineage stopped growing one sometime between 25 million and 20 million years ago ... The oldest known primate fossils are around ... Read More

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Newly discovered ichthyosaur that lived 200 million years ago in the Triassic sea is potentially ... scientists and other observers spotted some strange things in the sky and on the ground. Read More

Dinosaurs News

Jan. 10, 2024 — Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously ... 'Juvenile T. Read More

Volcanoes Roared in India 250 Million Years Ago

A version of this article appears in the July 3, 1948 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers to ... Read More

Meet Your Ancestors

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ... Read More

Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought

Scientists have explored the puzzling world of rays that lived 150 million years ago and discovered a previously ... at the University of Vienna examined 52 fossil rays from the Late Jurassic ... Read More

Million Science Projects

A version of this article appears in the May 2, 1964 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers to ... Read More

Your favorite coffee may be more than half a million years old

Using genes from coffee plants around the world, they found that it dates back to approximately 600,000 years ago. Arabica coffee ... at what’s developing in science and technology throughout ... Read More

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Total solar eclipse completes trek across Mexico, United States, eastern Canada April 8 (UPI) -- A rare total solar eclipse, the first in seven years and ... House Office of Science and Technology ... Read More

Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old

The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests and climate change, found that the species emerged around 600,000 years ago through natural crossbreeding ... Read More

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S. These three slinky predators are ... Read More