Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances, and more. Fossil chromosomes have been found in a piece of woolly mammoth skin unearthed from the permafrost in Siberia, the first of its kind, according to new research. Researchers unearthed the 52,000-year-old remains in 2018 near… Read More »
Molecules taken from the bodies of extinct species, including the woolly mammoth and giant sloth, were resurrected and appeared to fight infections. In an effort to discover new antibiotics, scientists have used artificial intelligence to extract biological data from long-dead species in the hope of finding missing pieces that can be repurposed. The Machine Biology… Read More »
An 18th-century collection of seashells from Captain James Cook’s third voyage, thought lost for more than 40 years, has been returned to English Heritage after being rescued from a “nothing short of a miracle” jump. The collection, which includes more than 200 specimens including an extinct species and those believed to have been returned from… Read More »
Forrest Sheperd is a teenager walking on the beach near where he found an ancient walrus skull.Forrest Shepherd A 13-year-old fossil enthusiast found a walrus skull in a rock in Northern California in 2011. Eleven years later, a paleontologist named a previously unknown, now extinct species after him. The toothless walrus probably lived near temperate… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The largest ape ever recorded was almost 3 meters tall and weighed almost twice as much as a gorilla. Why and when the legendary giant statue that captured the popular imagination as the “real King… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The largest ape ever recorded was almost 3 meters tall and weighed almost twice as much as a gorilla. Why and when the legendary giant statue that captured the popular imagination as the “real King… Read More »