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Oldest Known Reptile Tracks Found October 18, 2007—Newly found fossilized footprints show that reptiles walked the Earth a bit earlier than scientists believed. An unknown animal created the fossiliz...

Neandertals Had Same "Language Gene" as Modern Humans Neandertals might have been able to talk like us, a new genetic study suggests. A team of European researchers tested Neandertal bones recovered f...

Neandertals Ranged Much Farther East Than Thought Neandertals made it all the way to Siberia, some 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) farther east than previously thought, new DNA evidence suggests. Scien...

Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt's largest stone monuments to the Nile River. Most ancient Egyptian stonework, lik...

Saturn's rings are seen here in a panoramic mosaic of 165 images taken by the Cassini spacecraft. The color contrast has been greatly exaggerated to better show the color and size differences between ...

A NASA world map plots the annual average rise in surface air temperatures from 1960 to 2060 based on past measurements and future projections. A new study suggests that within 200 years, Earth's temp...

A female lynx in a captive-breeding program stalks Spain's Donana National Park. Wild Iberian lynx number only about a hundred, but they have gotten a boost by the recent discovery of a previously unk...

Close view of the skull of a Neandertal woman, dubbed Krapina 3 for the cave in the Balkans where her bones were unearthed. Some Neandertals may have had red hair and pale skin, according to research ...

These ceramic bowl sherds decorated with wheel burnishing lines were found recently in Jerusalem's holy Temple Mount by Muslim maintenance workers. The artifacts may be the first physical evidence of ...

This 405-year-old quahog clam, recently fished from Icelandic waters, could be the oldest animal ever found. If confirmed, the mollusk beats the official record-holder—another quahog clam—by nearly ...

Stone carvings line an ancient plaza recently unearthed in Puerto Rico. The find, thought to be a settlement of the Taino people, could be the largest of its kind ever found in the Caribbean. Kelly He...

October 30, 2007—An undergraduate student digging through a collection of fossils in a Pennsylvania museum recently found beautifully preserved full-body impressions of foot-long (30-centimeter-long)...

October 31, 2007—They didn't have any bones to leave behind, but ten fossilized jellyfish recently discovered in Utah have made an impression in more ways than one. At half a billion years old, the f...

A newly discovered Jurassic mammal is seen here in an artist's depiction foraging among fallen ginkgo leaves and arthropod shells (top). Based on the size and shape of the skeleton (bottom), scientist...

October 23, 2007—A trail can hardly get colder than this. Fossilized tracks recently discovered in southern Australia show that large, meat-eating dinosaurs once roamed near the South Pole a hundred ...

A skull rests in an ancient pot, crushed by the weight of time and topsoil, on the South Pacific island of faté, part of the country of Vanuatu. Teeth recently taken from a mass burial site on the is...

Of Europe's 522 freshwater fish species, more than a third are at serious risk of extinction, according to a new threat assessment compiled by World Conservation Union experts. Some of the at-risk spe...

A Malayan colugo (top) carries its baby as it soars (bottom) through a Southeast Asian rain forest. A new genetic study has found colugos, also known as flying lemurs, are primates' closest evolutiona...

Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass shows off the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut in his new high-tech display case. The body was moved on November 4, 2007, from an inner sarcophagus to the antecha...

November 4, 2007—Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (center), joins workers around the stone sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in the boy pharaoh's underground tom...

November 5, 2007—A huge, undiscovered animal lurking in the Amazon rain forest? When pigs fly, you might say. But recently, Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen spotted a new species of peccary—a type...

A one-year-old De Brazza's monkey perches on a branch in Kenya in this file photo. A new survey has uncovered a previously unknown population of the monkeys in western Kenya, a potential boon for a sp...

Two white dwarfs—the cores left behind when stars similar to our sun die—spiral toward each other and trigger a supernova in an artist's conception. A new study of the unusual supernova 2006gz provi...

Layers of volcanic rock from the Deccan Traps eruptions make a telltale striated pattern in western India. A new study suggests the Deccan volcanoes erupted as the dinos were dying off, providing addi...

November 1, 2007—It may break the record for breaking a record. A newly discovered black hole is much larger than the previous champion of the same type, which was announced just two weeks ago, scien...