Paleontologists discover land herbivores' earliest ancestorPaleontologists unearthed the oldest ancestor of land-dwelling herbivores with the discovery of a 300-million-year-old skeleton, shedding light onto plant eaters' emergence on land, a study said.
18 April 2014 10:35
30,000-year-old virus from permafrost is rebornFrench scientists said they had revived a giant but harmless virus that had been locked in the Siberian permafrost for more than 30,000 years.
'Exceptionally rare' conjoined whales found in MexicoFishermen have found two conjoined gray whale calves in a northwestern Mexican lagoon, a discovery that a government marine biologist described as "exceptionally rare."
08 January 2014 12:13
Revealed: Vast water store beneath Greenland's iceA vast store of water equivalent in area to Ireland lies beneath Greenland's icesheet, and it may provide answers to one of the big riddles of climate change, scientists reported on Sunday.
Chunk of 'Nazi art trove' may be returned to Munich man: reportGerman authorities think a good number of the paintings found in an art trove largely looted by the Nazis may ultimately be returned to the Munich man in whose apartment they were discovered.
New dolphin species discovered off north AustraliaResearchers have identified a new humpback dolphin species off northern Australia, using genetic mapping to single out an animal not previously known to science.
Prehistoric Brazil artifacts star in exhibit, spark debateIt's no secret humans have been having sex for millennia -- but recently discovered cave art suggests they were doing it in the Americas much earlier than many archeologists believed.
'Oldest' Gondwana land creature discoveredA 350-million-year-old fossilised scorpion discovered in South Africa is the oldest known land animal to have lived on Gondwana, part of Earth's former supercontinent.
