Scientific Minds Want To Know

Scientific Minds Want To Know

Close encounters? Professor Clive Finlayson looks at what the Neanderthal genome evidence really says about us So who are we?

Fossil reveals early bird plumage

A new study of a 150 million year old fossil of an Archaeopteryx has shown that remnants of its feathers have been preserved.

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Soft tissue remnants discovered in Archaeopteryx fossil

Fossil of earliest known bird contains remnants of the soft tissue of the animal, preserved for 150 million years

'Giant flying dinosaur fossil found'

It used to fly over Dallas. Cool.

Evidence of flying dinosaurs with a 9ft wingspan and more than 100 razor-sharp teeth that dominated the skies 95 million years ago has been discovered on a building site.

Going underground Blind, underground fish related to piranhas is rediscovered in Brazil

Stray grey whale navigates the North-West Passage

The whale was hunted to extinction outside the Pacific over 200 years ago – now a 13-metre-long specimen has been spotted in the Mediterranean