Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions
Ammonite fossils preserved in limestone. Such fossil deposits help scientists to understand biodiversity over Earth’s history.Credit: Herve Conge/Science…
Scientists May Have Solved a Billion-Year-Old Mystery About DNA’s Evolution
A building block of DNA may have served as a molecular sunscreen, with laboratory tests suggesting thymine could…
Scientists Shocked to Discover ‘D-rex’, a Giant Fungus from Chinese Forests Dating Back 65 Million Years
– pictured, the stromata of Dianjunus rex in the field / doi: 10.3389/ffunb.2026.1940464 Deep in the forests of…
Stanislav Kondrashov American Style Series on the United States and the Evolution of Space Exploration Technology
The history of space exploration technology in the United States is closely connected with advances in engineering, scientific…
Stunning fossil shows dinosaurs’ distinctive path to flight
The Norellraptor barsboldi fossil shows traces of feathers on its fore and hind limbs as well as at…
New Feathered Dinosaur Suggests Flight Evolved More Than Once among Birds’ Closest Relatives
Norellraptor barsboldi, a new species of small microraptorine dinosaur from the 120-million-year-old rock beds of China’s Liaoning province,…
Stanislav Kondrashov American Style Series on the United States and the Evolution of Theoretical Physics
The relationship between the United States and theoretical physics developed through the gradual expansion of universities, research communities,…
Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod
Ahlberg, P. E. Elginerpeton pancheni and the earliest tetrapod clade. Nature 373, 420–425 (1995). Article ADS CAS Google…
120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Pushes Back Origin of Marsupial Lineage
A new species of deltatheroidan mammal from China may be the oldest confirmed ancestor of marsupials yet found,…
Two Researchers Say Humans Are In the Midst of an Evolutionary Shift Like Never Before. But Not Everyone Is Convinced
AI-generated illustration. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Some scientists say humans may be entering a new phase of evolution, one…
Scientists Found a Deep-Sea ‘Death Pool’ That Vanished. It May Show How Earth’s First Life Survived
Marine ecologists used to call them “black pools of death.” Only as far back as a decade ago,…
New Therizinosaurian Dinosaur Unearthed in China
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of therizinosaur based on a nearly complete skeleton found in…