A group of paleontologists has discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, a large mammoth-like mammal that lived some three million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A team of Chinese and American scientists has discovered a new mammal from the 165 million-year-old lakebeds of the Jurassic Period in Northern China. It sheds light on the earliest mammalian evolution, especially the convergent evolution of teeth among early mammals, and leads scientists to think that mammals were far more diverse in the age of dinosaurs than previously thought. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

A 2,000-year-old mine has been discovered high in mountains in Peru. The find offers proof that an ancient people in the Andes mined hematite iron ore centuries before the Inca Empire, archaeologists say. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

It may be more than 570million years old and look like a knobbly rope, but scientist believe they have discovered the first animal on earth ever to have sex. The fossilised remains of this new species of organism was unearthed in Australia where the tube-like creatures lived in abundant flocks. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

French fossil hunters have pinned down the age of Toumai, which they contend is the remains of the earliest human ever found, at between 6.8 and 7.2 million years old. The fossil was discovered in the Chadian desert in 2001 and an intense debate ensued over whether the nearly complete cranium, pieces of jawbone and teeth belonged to one of our earliest ancestors. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago