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“better neglected” remained overlooked in London’s Natural History Museum for nearly a century—until a label beneath
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (1003+ words) 14-species genus with 11 species new to science. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30,...the species name is permanently attached. As the Natural History Museum explains in its guide to why type specimens...That provenance was strengthened by…...
In a Norwegian cave in 2025, scientists found 75,000-year-old bones of polar bears, walruses, and bowhead whales — and the remains of a species of lemming now extinct in Europe that had never been found in Scandinavia before
4+ week, 1+ day ago (918+ words) community from roughly 85,000 to 71,000 years ago. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15,...
More than 10 million years ago, South America had saber-toothed mammals, terror birds and giant snakes. But fossil evidence suggests even its apex land predators could become prey near the water, where the enormous caiman Purussaurus neivensis ruled.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1377+ words) Four tooth pits in a terror bird's leg point to a 4.6-to-4.8-meter caiman, probably Purussaurus neivensis, but the fossil cannot distinguish a kill from scavenging. By Lachlan Brown · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit Four shallow…...
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a hierarchy of aggressive males but a society running on friendship, memory of who helped whom, and constant negotiation
3+ week, 2+ day ago (600+ words) Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about primate societies, replacing a model built on male aggression with one built on long-term female relationships and something that looks, from the outside, like a…...
Deep beneath Central Texas, a caver put his head beneath an underground stream and found Ice Age fossils everywhere — mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats and an armadillo relative as big as a lion
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (394+ words) One cave, one underwater glimpse, and a trove of Ice Age giants that rewrites what we know about Texas's deep past. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit A caver dropped into a hole in the limestone of Comal County, Texas, put…...
Ancient cacao DNA has been recovered from two pottery fragments dug out of eleventh and twelfth century feasting pits at Etowah in Georgia, reported as the first clear evidence that cacao consumption was part of the Mississippian world
1+ week, 4+ day ago (740+ words) Chemical residues could not tell chocolate apart from a holly native to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, so a French and American team went looking for the plant's DNA instead, and found it on two of the three sherds they…...
Western disgust at eating insects may have roots deeper than culture — dental plaque from 745 ancient humans found Europeans rarely ate them, while genetic evidence shows reduced ability to digest their exoskeletons persisted for at least 9,000 years.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1222+ words) 9,000-year-old chitinase patterns point to a deep ecological history without identifying a gene for disgust. By Lab...
A 300,000-year-old jawbone from China refuses to fit neatly into the human family tree — and a reconstructed million-year-old skull is now suggesting our major ancestral branches split hundreds of thousands of years earlier than we thought
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (337+ words) The fossil record is forcing scientists to rewrite when and where human ancestry split into separate branches, upending decades of assumptions about our evolutionary path. Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere in a Beijing collection sits a fragment of a…...
Archaeologists found a 1,200-year-old island in Fiji made almost entirely of discarded shellfish — created by generations of people processing food during the same centuries Maya cities flourished and Viking voyagers began crossing the North Atlantic
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (548+ words) CE is a handy anchor for anyone who likes their history stacked side by side. In the Petén lowlands of...
military trucks and turned what looked like an easy cull into one of history’s strangest defeats
1+ week, 2+ day ago (451+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit Three gunners stepped off the Perth train at Campion in November 1932 carrying two Lewis machine guns, ten thousand rounds of ammunition and the reasonable expectation of being home for Christmas....