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Scientists claim to have found monkey fossils, about 6.4 million years old, in China. A Pennsylvania State University researcher said they are some of the very oldest fossils of monkeys outside of Africa. The discovery indicates monkeys existed in Asia at the same time as apes and are probably the ancestors of some of the modern monkeys there, researchers said. Continue...  

A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh has discovered a new species of toothless, two-fingered dinosaur that lived more than 68 million years ago. The animals had a toothless beak similar to the type seen in parrots. Multiple complete skeletons of the new species, named Oksoko avarsan, were dug up in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Continue...  

Archaeologists have unearthed the skeleton of what could be an Anglo-Saxon warrior, the Marlow Warlord, in the UK. The six-foot-tall warrior had well-developed muscles, analysis of the skeleton revealed. It is believed the burial site dates from the sixth century. The remains were found along with an array of weapons including spears and a sword with its scabbard. Continue...

The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study said. It added, between January-August, temperatures reached between 2-3°C on the peninsula, which is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. Those temperatures are "more than 2°C over typical values", climatologist Raul Cordero said in a statement released by the Chilean Antarctic Institute. Continue...