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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 01/10/2026

A small feathered dinosaur from China's Liaoning province, about 120 million years old, suggests the flight equipment of birds and their closest relatives evolved separately. fossi.ls/31KOvF/bs

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 30/09/2026

Paleontologists have long tried to explain how the carbon isotopes of some dinosaur's teeth were so much higher than others. They have recently solved this dietary puzzle. fossi.ls/lNF5C4/bs

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 19/09/2026

Scientists have identified the first dinosaur fossil from western Bayan Gobi, extending the known range of dinosaurs in this important Early Cretaceous formation. Image credit: Jakob Vinther et al. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 18/09/2026

Researchers managed to extract DNA from African fossils dating back to the last ice age. theconversation.com/discovery-of... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 18/09/2026

A 1.75-million-year-old ancient human fossil may preserve evidence of a horrifying encounter with two predators—a crocodile and a leopard attacking at once. www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 18/09/2026

Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape. Image credit: Richard Bizley/Science Source. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/s... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 17/09/2026

A Stone Age burial of a man with a toothy necklace and human skulls surprised archaeologists excavating in Poland. Image credit: Wrocław Medical University. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 17/09/2026

Ancient DNA has revealed that the so-called American cheetah was not a cheetah at all, but a surprisingly adaptable relative of modern pumas. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 17/09/2026

The largest known T. rex may have died from injuries sustained in a fight, with its broken rib preserving blood vessels from the fatal wound. www.popsci.com/science/larg... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 16/09/2026

A fossilized Iguanodon shinbone with an unusual growth may be the first evidence of a serious bacterial skin infection in a dinosaur. www.iflscience.com/for-the-firs... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 16/09/2026

The head of a whale, believed to date back to the Bronze Age, has been discovered buried on a beach in Islandmagee. www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 16/09/2026

The first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists. fossi.ls/bVZlkZ/bs

The first known series of footprints from an adult Tyrannosaurus rex has been found in North Dakota by a team of scientists.

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 16/09/2026

A swollen patch on an Iguanodon shinbone may be the first evidence of an infected skin ulcer reaching the bone in a dinosaur. Image credit: Royal Society Open Science (2026). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.261293. phys.org/news/2026-09... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 15/09/2026

A 550-million-year-old fossil from China may be the earliest evidence of animals partnering with microbes, suggesting symbiosis helped early life survive in hostile environments. phys.org/news/2026-09... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 15/09/2026

Paleontologists studying a fossil unearthed in southern Manitoba, Canada, have identified what they believe are two bite marks on the internal skeleton of the ancient giant cephalopod Enchoteuthis. Image credit: Kaitlin Lindblad. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 15/09/2026

Fossils are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction. But why are the ancient creatures the hot new thing for the ultrarich? www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 14/09/2026

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 14/09/2026

A new genomic method detected roughly 0.49% to 1.1% ancestry from an unidentified human population across five sampled groups. Image credit: Ranjit Pradhan. scienceblog.com/t-unknown-hu... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 14/09/2026

Archaeologists say an ichthyosaur vertebra was deliberately collected and kept during Roman times. www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 13/09/2026

A fossil from China may push the origin of flowering plants back nearly 300 million years, suggesting they appeared long before the Cretaceous. Credit: Plant Biosystems (2026). DOI: 10.1007/s44473-026-00267-6. phys.org/news/2026-08... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 13/09/2026

Surprisingly agile monkeys are forcing scientists to rethink how the ancient ancestor of humans and chimpanzees may have climbed through the trees. Image credit: W. Scott McGraw. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 13/09/2026

A new study has flipped the historical narrative about Australia's thylacine, finding the native apex predator known as the "Tasmanian tiger" was significantly different from wolves and wild dogs. phys.org/news/2026-08... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 12/09/2026

A massive insect study challenges a 60-year-old genetic explanation for how ants, bees, and wasps became masters of social living. Image credit: Shutterstock. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 12/09/2026

Aboriginal artists painted giant Rainbow Serpents as European colonization brought upheaval to Arnhem Land, reinforcing their traditions and connection to the land. Image credit: P. Taçon. phys.org/news/2026-08... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 12/09/2026

Something took a bite out of one of the biggest predators in Cambrian seas, an extraordinary fossil shows – and it could well be cannibalism. Image credit: Yu Wu, Northwest University, Xi'an, China. www.newscientist.com/article/2586... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 11/09/2026

New work argues the first bird reached takeoff speed with two or three leaps rather than a standing launch. fossi.ls/hcwRy3/bs

New work argues the first bird reached takeoff speed with two or three leaps rather than a standing launch.

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 11/09/2026

A newly described amphibious stem-insect fossil had 24 legs, shedding light on how the ancestors of modern insects moved from water onto land. fossi.ls/yG2fg2/bs

A newly described amphibious stem-insect fossil had 24 legs, shedding light on how the ancestors of modern insects moved from water onto land.

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 11/09/2026

Anthropologists studying the hip bones of Homo floresiensis have discovered that its pelvis was human-like, raising new questions about the origin of the enigmatic species. Image credit: Alamy www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 11/09/2026

An incomplete fossilized skull that has sat in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since the 19th century has turned out to represent a previously unrecognized species of glyptodont. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 11/09/2026

Tracks of what appears to be the largest mammal of the dinosaur era have been found in Brazil. Image credit: Júlia d'Oliveira/Elsevier. www.iflscience.com/early-cretac... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 10/09/2026

Researchers have uncovered rare dinosaur tracks from the Coniacian age (Late Cretaceous) in northeastern British Columbia. These are the first tracks of this age found anywhere in Canada. fossi.ls/WwXXu5/bs

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 10/09/2026

Fossilized teeth from at least seven shark species have been discovered in the Egyptian desert, hinting at its complex, watery past. Image credit: Tarek Yassin. www.livescience.com/animals/shar... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 10/09/2026

Ancient teeth and human DNA reveal a surprising history of insect eating, suggesting Neanderthals consumed insects more regularly than modern humans in northern Eurasia. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 10/09/2026

A rare set of dinosaur tracks in British Columbia dates to about 89–86 million years ago, offering a glimpse of duck-billed dinosaurs and predators living along an ancient seaway. phys.org/news/2026-08... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 10/09/2026

Scientists have identified a giant new dinosaur from a Brazil construction site that reached about 66 feet long and lived 120 million years ago. Its ties to a Spanish dinosaur suggest ancestors crossed ancient land links between Europe, Africa, and South America. fossi.ls/QchnvA/bs

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 09/09/2026

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 09/09/2026

DNA from a 190-year-old museum specimen has confirmed a distinct Himalayan pangolin species and could help trace illegally traded scales back to their source. Image credit: Tulshi Laxmi Suwal. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 09/09/2026

A many-legged oddball from long ago helps fill a major gap in the fossil record — and hints at how insects ended up with just six legs. Image credit: Chao Tan/Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology. www.sciencenews.org/article/inse... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 09/09/2026

We're back! Daily Discoveries is a new daily series of brief articles covering the latest research and discoveries in paleontology, archaeology, Earth science and more. It launches Wednesday. A new eartharchives.org website is coming soon too.

Daily Discoveries announcement card featuring a photo of the Basilosaurus whale fossil skeleton at Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 08/09/2026

Neanderthal pelvises challenge the idea that childbirth and efficient bipedal walking were evolutionary trade-offs, suggesting pelvic floor stability may have been the real constraint. Image credit: Marcia Ponce de León and Christoph Zollikofer. phys.org/news/2026-08... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 08/09/2026

Scientists have found the world’s highest known Late Middle Pleistocene marine deposits, preserved 1,177 meters above sea level in Türkiye. Image credit: Selma Sarı. phys.org/news/2026-08... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 08/09/2026

Most trees retire after a few centuries. This ancient 3,700-year-old olive seems to have missed the memo, and it’s not the only one. Image credit: ZME Science. www.zmescience.com/science/news... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 07/09/2026

Paleontologists in China have identified a new armored, jawless fish whose batwing-shaped skull may have helped it glide through Devonian seas. Image credit: Dinghua Yang. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 07/09/2026

Colossal Biosciences now estimates that it will de-extinct a woolly mammoth sometime in the 2030s. Image credit: Leonello Calvetti—Science Photo Library. time.com/article/2026... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 07/09/2026

Cranial fossils of a nodosaurid ankylosaur unearthed more than two decades ago on the Japanese island of Hokkaido have been recognized as belonging to a new genus and species. Image credit: TotalDino / CC BY 4.0. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 06/09/2026

A 4,000-year-old painted stone plaque from a remote Indonesian island is the first known portable art from the Austronesian Painting Tradition, offering a rare glimpse into the symbolic world of ancient seafarers. phys.org/news/2026-08... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 06/09/2026

New Monash University research argues that our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ago should be included under the Homo group of species. Image credit: Ian Towle, Monash University www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 06/09/2026

The 400-year-old Greenland shark may hold surprising secrets to keeping eyes healthy for a lifetime. Image credit: Ghislain Bardout. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 05/09/2026

At least seven shark species once inhabited the nutrient-rich waters that covered what is now Egypt’s Abu-Tartur Plateau, revealing a diverse Late Cretaceous marine ecosystem. Image credit: Anton Petrus/Moment/Getty Images. www.sciencealert.com/an-ancient-s... #fossils #paleontology

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.org · 05/09/2026

A research group has examined a fossil in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, and identified it as the right sternal plate (part of the chest skeleton) of an iguanodontian dinosaur. Image credit: Masato Hattori. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #fossils #paleontology

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