Ancient proteins offer new clues to what Denisovans looked like
Ancient proteins identify two fossil fragments from northern China as Denisovan, linking molecular evidence to a substantial fossil…
Scientists Discover a 99-Million-Year-Old Insect With a Bizarre Feature Never Seen in Living Species
The newly described species: Cretoduros noonoo. Credit: Dolev Fabrikant Like a bendy straw, an ancient insect’s folded mouthparts…
The Fossil Record May Be Missing 200 Million Years of Animal History
Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa – 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of…
Newly Identified Frog-like Creature Named by Student Scientists After Their Moms
Allison Sefcovic and Payton Kohlberg hold epoxy sculptures of new species Jeanerpeton mazonensis – Credit: Chicago Field Museum…
One of Earth’s Oldest Animal Fossils Found in a Norwegian Sheep Field
Sheep in a field in Finnmark, Norway. Credit: Yorick Veenma One of the oldest known animal fossils preserved…
A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in…
Fossilized Vomit Reveals a Surprising Secret About Plesiosaur Behavior
Artist’s impression of plesiosaurs feeding on the sea floor. Credit: Lente ArtemieffUnusual fossils from an ancient North Sea…
Scientists Found a New Giant Feathered Dinosaur With Nightmare Claws. But It Ate Plants
Artistic rendering of Jehol therizinosaurians, illustrating variation in body size. Credit: Kōhei Futaka About 125 million years ago,…
Afforestation and reforestation support coupled gains in soil life and carbon storage worldwide
Bastin, J. F. et al. The global tree restoration potential. Science 365, 76–79 (2019). Article CAS PubMed Google…
90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan’s Coast
Iguanodontians were a diverse group of plant-eating dinosaurs that thrived from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous.…
Adaptive zones of feliforms and evolutionary regimes within terrestrial mammalian carnivores
Simpson, G. G. Major Features of Evolution (Columbia Univ. Press, 1953). Simpson, G. G. Tempo and Mode in…
The Human Family Tree May Need a Major Rewrite
New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years…