67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing
A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in…
Fossils upend timeline of the evolution of mammal hearing
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Fossils offer clues to animal life millions of years ago
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Inside the bone-crushing mating rituals of dinosaurs
Features that paleontologists have long found sexy about dinosaurs were probably sexy to the dinosaurs themselves. Even feather…
Cave of Wonders: Where Prehistoric Bees Made Nests in the Bones of Animals Eaten by Colossal Owls
– credit, Lazaro Viñola López via SWNS Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open,…
Meet The 42-Foot Snake That Ruled Earth After The Dinosaurs — A Biologist Explains
About 60 million years ago, long before humans and just after the dinosaurs vanished, a giant snake rose…
Fossil tracks in Italy record a turtle stampede from 80 million years ago
In the spring of 2019, free climbers scaling the risky cliffs of Monte Cònero on Italy’s Adriatic coast…
AI uncovers Earth’s earliest life from 3.3 billion years ago
Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has…
This Unusual Dinosaur Had A Sail Along Its Back To Increase Its Allure » TwistedSifter
James Brown/University of Portsmouth/Natural History Museum Just because dinosaurs roamed our planet over a hundred million years ago,…
How This Weirdly Spiky Dinosaur Has Challenged Everything We Thought We Knew About Ankylosaurs » TwistedSifter
Matt Dempsey If you thought that the T-Rex was the most formidable dinosaur, you might want to think…
Meet the Weirdly Wonderful ‘Frosty’ Rhino That Once Roamed the Canadian Arctic
When you think of rhinoceroses, chances are you think of regions like Africa and Asia, not North America.…
A Plant-Eating Croc? Newly Identified Species Demonstrates Crocodilian Versatility
Illustration by Dane Johnson, Museum of the Rockies – released to the press Measuring no more than 2…