518-Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges What We Thought Starfish Came From
Artist’s impression of Yujingia glutenotunica. Credit: Kaiyue He et al. A creature preserved for 518 million years hints…
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…
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…
Construction Crew Uncovers Giant 20-Meter Dinosaur in Brazil
Artistic reconstruction of the new dinosaur from Maranhão state. It was 20 meters long and had a European…
Crocodiles Evolved Backwards From Warm-Blooded Species to Cold-Blooded Killers
Despite an incredible number of visible differences, modern-day crocodiles and birds share a common ancestor dating back to…
The Weirdest Theory Yet for Why Life on Earth Suddenly Exploded
In the first 20 million years of the Cambrian period, Earth experienced an explosion of life—a great evolutionary…