Ichthyosaurs Had Surprisingly Dense Ribs, New Study Finds
Long before whales ruled the oceans, dolphin-shaped marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs patrolled the same waters. New research from…
Ancient DNA Rewrites Story of Enigmatic ‘American Cheetah’
For several decades, paleontologists have described Miracinonyx trumani — an extinct species of cheetah-like felid that roamed the…
Fossil Evidence Pushes Back Origin of Live Birth by 90 Million Years
Paleontologists studying a 236-million-year-old cynodont fossil from Argentina say they have found the earliest evidence yet of viviparity…
Scientists Add Unlikely New Member to World’s Carnivorous Plants
More than 150 years after Charles Darwin first wondered whether certain sticky-leaved Saxifraga plants might be secretly carnivorous,…
Octopuses Use Mirrors to Map Space Like Primates and Dolphins
The post Octopuses Use Mirrors to Map Space Like Primates and Dolphins appeared first on A-Z Animals. If…
This Toothless, Beaked Crocodile Ancestor Walked on Two Legs
During the Triassic period there was an explosion of animal diversity. A cataclysmic extinction event at the end…
Study: Butterflies and Moths Have Reused Same Genetic Toolkit for 120 Million Years
A landmark study of several butterfly lineages and a day-flying moth in South America shows that convergent evolution…
Two Jurassic Mammal Relatives Had Uniquely Shaped Jaw Joints
The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis…