All articles tagged with #2025 discoveries
In 2025, significant discoveries about Neanderthals revealed they were the first to make fire, engaged in cannibalism, created symbolic art, used ocher as 'crayons,' and had genetic traits affecting their energy, susceptibility to lead poisoning, and possible reasons for their extinction, highlighting their intelligence and complex behavior.
In 2025, paleontologists discovered several new dinosaur species, including a potential missing link in the Tyrannosaurus family tree called Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, a spiky dinosaur with long bones, a megaraptor named Joaquinraptor with preserved diet, and a dome-headed pachycephalosaur in Montana, revealing new insights into dinosaur evolution and diversity.
The year 2025 saw a surge in dinosaur discoveries, including 44 new species from around the world, with significant finds like Zavacephale in Mongolia, Istiorachis in England, and Spicomellus in Morocco, advancing our understanding of dinosaur evolution and diversity.
In 2025, LIGO has more than tripled its known black hole mergers to around 300, marking a decade of groundbreaking gravitational wave astronomy, but the field faces potential closure due to significant funding cuts, risking setbacks in our understanding of the universe's black hole population and gravitational physics.