567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils…
Scientists Discover a 5-Million-Year-Old Whale Graveyard Deep Beneath the Indian Ocean
Deep beneath the Indian Ocean, researchers found an ancient whale graveyard filled with fossils and active ecosystems. Credit:…
Ocean warming has been shrinking marine animals for 450 million years, massive study reveals |
Marine animals do not just struggle when ocean temperatures spike, they actually shrink, and a massive new study…
“One in a Million” Find: Soft Tissue Discovered in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil
Crinoid soft tissue fossil. Credit: University of Oklahoma A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing…
Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change
Plot and environmental data We retrieved 1,903,668 vegetation plots and 40,468,042 observation records from the European Vegetation Archive…
Ancient Roman May Have Been the World’s First Collector of Sea Monster Fossils
Ichthyosaurs weren’t dinosaurs, although they were certainly large and scary-looking enough to inspire awe and curiosity in people…
Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature
Scientists believe that Earth’s earliest life included ancient forms of crinoids, or the relatives of modern starfish. Crinoid…
Scientists Have Identified a New Fossil Species of Axolotl in Mexico
Researchers at the Zaragoza School of Advanced Studies (FES Zaragoza) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)…
New Theory of Smallest Human: Not a Hunter, but Eater of Lizard Leftovers
Who exactly was Homo floresiensis, the strange miniature hominins that once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores?…
This snake weighing 1100kgs, as long as a small plane was the ultimate prehistoric mega-predator of the Amazon rainforest
While the world weaves tales about dinosaurs, snakes larger and more ferocious have slithered away in the past.…
What Happened to Australasia’s Lost Crocodiles? New Research Reveals a Dramatic Extinction Story
Australia’s crocodiles are the last survivors of a far more diverse group of ancient crocodylians that once dominated…
Comparative primate analysis shows that humans are not unique in having a tight cephalopelvic fit at birth
Schultz, A. H. Sex differences in the pelves of primates. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 7, 401–423 (1949). Article …