Mastodon Migrations With the Glaciers Ice Revealed in New Paper
Giant elephants were more diverse than we had appreciated, it turns out. A new study published Friday in…
Dinosaur-Hunting Croc Cousin With Monster Jaws Unearthed in Patagonia
Kostensuchus atrox – life restauration, 3 meters long. Credit: Gabriel Diaz Yanten, CC-BY 4.0 Seventy million years ago,…
Prehistoric Skull Found Fused to Cave Wall May Have Belonged to Mysterious Ancient Hominid
In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on…
50-Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Unearthed in Syria Stuns Paleontologists
Carapace of Syriemys lelunensis: The genus name combines the Greek words Συρία (Suría) and ἐμύς (emús), i.e., “Syria”…
What Dinosaur Teeth Reveal About Life 150 Million Years Ago
Photo of teeth in a jaw section of Giraffatitan from Tanzania (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, MB.R.2180.20.5). The light-coloured…
Brazilian Scientists Solve 50-Year-Old Fossil Enigma With Discovery of New Plant Genus
Fossil of the prehistoric plant Franscinella riograndensis, found in the Paraná Basin and dated to approximately 296 million…
‘Jaw-droppingly weird’ dinosaur from Morocco was studded with spikes
Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the…
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex
Fijarczyk, A. & Babik, W. Detecting balancing selection in genomes: limits and prospects. Mol. Ecol. 24, 3529–3545 (2015).…
Australian Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales
Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might…
An Even Scarier Predator Hunted Giant ‘Terror Birds’ in South America
Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ago, a young caiman came upon a tasty snack in modern-day…
Shotgun sequencing of airborne eDNA achieves rapid assessment of whole biomes, population genetics and genomic variation
Permitting The analysis of human-derived eDNA from field obtained samples and human-related sampling was conducted with University of…