Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Grapes have been intertwined with the story of humanity for millennia, providing the basis for wines produced by our ancestors thousands of years ago — but that may not have been the case if dinosaurs hadn’t […]
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A Million-Year-Old Skull Could Prove the Dragon Man’s Direct Line to Humans
A reconstruction of an ancient Chinese skull may tie the Dragon Man lineage even closer to Homo sapiens. Scientists have revealed potential ties between Denisovans, Dragon Man, and Yunxian Man lines. Potential links between the archaic humans and Homo Sapiens are still a source of intrigue. The exact ties between archaic human lines and Homo […]
Man Stumbles Across 70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Skeleton While Walking His Dog
An amateur paleontology enthusiast living in France made a life-changing discovery while walking his dog two years ago, when he stumbled upon the bones of what would turn out to be a nearly intact, 70 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton. Damien Boschetto, now 25, had been walking his dog Muffin in a wooded area of Montouliers in southern […]
29 million-year-old grasshopper nest full of eggs could be a one-of-a-kind fossil, study says
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. In an ancient temperate forest in what is now Oregon, an insect dug deep into a sandy bank near a creek. There, in a damp burrow, she laid dozens of oblong eggs, about 50 in all. […]
72 million-year-old ‘blue dragon’ unearthed in Japan is unlike anything we’ve ever seen, experts say
Scientists in Japan have unearthed the near-complete remains of an ancient, great white shark-size sea monster that likely terrorized the ancient oceans it used to inhabit. The prehistoric predator, which researchers have named “blue dragon,” has an unusual body plan that sets it apart from its extinct relatives and is unlike any living creature. The […]