Australian researchers have discovered the oldest confirmed platypus specimen along with a new species they've named ...
The newly described fossil - Haliskia-peterseni - is only the second partial pterosaur skeleton ever found in Australia.
As bones encased in rock rotted away, water-borne silica seeped into the crevices, solidifying into opal and preserving ...
Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Only two types of monotremes, the platypus ...
The Australian platypus is one of Earth’s most unusual creatures — but there was a time when it might not have stood out in a crowd. In roughly 100-million-year-old rocks in Australia ...
Quirks and Quarks9:16What would you do with a third thumb? Research suggests our brain can quickly adapt People have no trouble adapting to a robotic third thumb, according to a recent study that ...
BRASILIA, June 20 (Reuters) - A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs.
A lost ancient city famed for its pearls may have finally been identified by archaeologists. A team of researchers working on Siniyah Island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ...
Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to ...
The world’s oldest bottle of wine was recently discovered in an ancient Roman burial site in southern Spain, according to a study published this week. The wine remains in a glass funeral urn ...
The examination of an ancient "portal to the underworld" that has perplexed archaeologists has finally ended, officials say. The Mexican artifact, called the Olmec Cave Mask, was stolen from the ...