Read more about the article Cranium Of 1.5m-Year-Old Human Ancestor Was Rounder And Longer, Say Boffins
Picture shows skull and endocranial cast of DAN5, undated. The study made digital reconstructions of two fossils found in the Ethiopian site of Gona to carry out the analysis of their neurocranial shape and the variability of the first species of the genus Homo erectus. (CENIEH/Newsflash )

Cranium Of 1.5m-Year-Old Human Ancestor Was Rounder And Longer, Say Boffins

Experts have studied the skull of a 1.5 million-year-old human ancestor with one of the smallest cranial capacities and say that it was longer and rounder than those of modern…

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Read more about the article The 99-Million-Year-Old Snail Which Used Hairs To Make It Sexy
Image shows the hairy snail, undated photo. It was discovered in a 99-million-year-old amber: Archaeocyclotus brevivillosus sp. nov by scientists in Germany in October 2022. (Senckenberg/Newsflash)

The 99-Million-Year-Old Snail Which Used Hairs To Make It Sexy

Scientists have discovered a tiny ancient snail that could have used hairs sprouting out of its shell to help it find mates. The creature was found in a 99 million-year-old…

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Read more about the article Tools Dating Back Half A Million Years And Used By Extinct Human Ancestors Unearthed In Polish Cave
Picture shows the artefacts and drawings of them, during the analysis, undated. The flint tools discovered over 50 years ago in Tunel Wielki cave, in Poland were found to be half a million years old after an extensive project aimed at analysing artefacts by the University of Warsaw. (M. Kot/Newsflash)

Tools Dating Back Half A Million Years And Used By Extinct Human Ancestors Unearthed In Polish Cave

These tools used by an extinct ancestor of modern-day humans and found in a cave in Poland have been dated back half a million years. The impressive discovery was made…

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Read more about the article Derelict Rail Station Has Become Home To Hundreds of Wild Bee Species
Image shows rare steppe-bee Camptopoeum frontale in an undated photo. The Natural History Museum of Vienna in Austria reported on a rare wild bee species site Breitenlee on Monday, Sep. 5, 2022. (Sylvia Wanzenbock/Newsflash)

Derelict Rail Station Has Become Home To Hundreds of Wild Bee Species

A derelict World War I era railway station in Vienna is to be studied by biologists to unlock the secrets of wild bee communities, it has emerged. More than 450…

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Read more about the article Decade Long Survey Finds Climate Change Is Pushing Isolate Reefs To Brink Of Collapse
The Global Reef Expedition mission to the Chagos Archipelago in 2015 allowed an international team of scientists to study some of the most remote and undisturbed coral reefs in the world. (Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation,Phil Renaud/Newsflash)

Decade Long Survey Finds Climate Change Is Pushing Isolate Reefs To Brink Of Collapse

A 10-year survey that studied coral reefs across the globe found that climate change and overfishing have pushed even the most isolated reefs to the brink. Researchers, who studied over…

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Read more about the article New Species Of Indestructible Water Bear Found Fossilised In 16 Million Year Old Amber
Artistic reconstruction of Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus in moss.

New Species Of Indestructible Water Bear Found Fossilised In 16 Million Year Old Amber

A new species of ‘indestructible’ water bear has been found fossilised in a chunk of amber dating back 16 million years. Tardigrades, also known as water bears and moss piglets,…

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