frankcreedMar 12, 20211 min readAncient Magma From Earth's Early Days Discovered in Rocks From GreenlandOur planet's surface has seen a thing or two in its 4.5 billion-odd-years of existence. Weathered by ocean, corroded by wind, and...
frankcreedMar 8, 20211 min readScientists Successfully “Wake” Microbes That Had Remained Dormant for 100 Million YearsA team of scientists in the US and Japan says that these prehistoric microorganisms began to grow and divide despite having entered an...
frankcreedMar 6, 20211 min readMysterious 9,000-Year-Old Mask Excavated in Israel Stuns ExpertsArchaeologists believe that the rare stone artifact uncovered in southern West Bank was used in ancient times as a worship tool during a...
frankcreedMar 4, 20211 min readThere’s a Valley of Whales in the Middle of Egypt’s Desert and its Millions of Years oldThe site is called Wadi El Hitan, dubbed the Valley of Whales, located around 160 kilometers from the famous pyramids at Giza. There is...
frankcreedMar 3, 20212 min readIs This a Fossilized Lair of the Dreaded Bobbit Worm?NOT TO TOOT my own horn, but I know a thing or two about bizarre animals. And I can tell you without a hint of doubt that the bobbit worm...
frankcreedFeb 27, 20212 min readDust From Asteroid That Ended Dinosaur Reign Closes Case on Impact Extinction TheoryHaving dominated the planet's surface for hundreds of millions of years, dinosaur diversity came to a dramatic conclusion some 66 million...
frankcreedFeb 26, 20211 min read40,000-Year-Old Cave Symbols May be Part of a Single Global LanguageIf we take a look at what history tells us, we will find that the earliest known writing systems developed in ancient Sumer sometime...
frankcreedFeb 22, 20211 min readLong-Lost, Priceless Fossil Turns Out to Be a 30-Million-Year-Old Vampire SquidVampire squid have been lurking in the dark corners of the ocean for 30 million years, a new analysis of a long-lost fossil finds....
frankcreedFeb 21, 20211 min read99-Million-Year-Old Baby Bird Preserved in Burmese Amber Stuns ExpertsThe remains of a 99 million-year-old Enantiornithes baby bird, uniquely preserved, were found in a piece of Burmese amber from Myanmar....
frankcreedFeb 20, 20211 min readA magnetic field reversal 42,000 years ago may have contributed to mass extinctions.A flip-flop of Earth’s magnetic poles between 42,000 and 41,000 years ago briefly but dramatically shrank the magnetic field’s strength —...
frankcreedFeb 18, 20211 min readMammoth molars yield the oldest DNA ever sequencedA genetic analysis of long-extinct Siberian mammoths has nearly doubled the record for the oldest DNA yet sequenced. The genetic...
frankcreedFeb 11, 20211 min readRetesting of ancient teeth found in China shows they are 16,000 years old—not 120,000A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China, along with one from Australia, one from Taiwan and one from the...
frankcreedFeb 8, 20211 min readEvidence Humans Lived in America 130,000 Years AgoIn 2017, American archaeologists reported a sensational find that points to the possible presence of humans in America as early as...
frankcreedFeb 5, 20212 min readPartially Excavated Argentinian Dinosaur May Be Largest Land Animal EverWe all know that dinosaurs were big, but we are finding out just how big they really got. Possibly the largest dinosaur (or land animal)...
frankcreedJan 28, 20211 min read47-million-year-old Python Fossil Found in EuropePaleontologists have identified four fossilized snake skeletons as belonging to a new species of ancient python. At roughly 47 million...
frankcreedJan 26, 20211 min readDinosaur ‘Mummy’ Is So Well-Preserved It Even Has The Skin And Guts IntactScientists are hailing it as the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever discovered. That’s why you cannot see its bones – they remain...
frankcreedJan 25, 20211 min readThis 14,000-Year-Old Bison Cave Sculpture Is a Fascinating Example of Ancient ArtThe Sculpture is believed to be more than 14,000 years old and is regarded as the largest and finest surviving prehistoric sculptures in...
frankcreedJan 17, 20211 min readThe Worlds Oldest Cave Painting Made More Than 45,500 Years AgoA cave painting of a pig discovered in a karst cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia has been recognized as the world’s oldest...
frankcreedJan 15, 20211 min readDire wolves, which died out 13,000 years ago, ended a separate lineage from wolves.The ancient, extinct dire wolf may have been among the lonest of the wolves - so genetically distinct from its closest wolf relative that...
frankcreedJan 13, 20211 min readWell-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino found in SiberiaMOSCOW (AP) — A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in...
