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June 11, 2024 An international scientific team has redefined our understanding of archaea, a microbial ancestor to humans from two billion years ago, by showing how they use hydrogen gas. The findings explain how ...
June 14, 2024 New research has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the last 66 million years, before steadily declining over the last 10 million years to its lowest value in ...
June 13, 2024 Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of ...
June 13, 2024 When it comes to the ocean's response to global warming, we're not in entirely uncharted waters. A new study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth's past caused the exchange of waters from the surface to the deep ocean to ...
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June 12, 2024 New research has identified 100-million-year-old fossilized bones discovered in western Queensland as belonging to a newly identified species of ...
June 7, 2024 Ancient apes in Germany co-existed by partitioning resources in their environment, according to a new ...
June 5, 2024 Geobiologists reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge that had been missing from the fossil record. The discovery sheds new light on a conundrum that has stumped zoologists and paleontologists for ...
June 6, 2024 In a parasitic first, a Baltic amber specimen has revealed that millions of years ago tiny worms known as nematodes were living inside of and feeding ...
June 5, 2024 The identity of a prehistoric marine reptile has finally been revealed after experts discovered that some of its remains actually belonged to ...
May 22, 2024 A 3,500-year-old suit of Mycenaean armour may have been used in battle -- and not just for ceremonial purposes as previously thought -- new research ...
June 4, 2024 A team of palaeontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of more than three metres -- making it one of the largest ...
May 28, 2024 Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light into an unknown ...
May 30, 2024 A large fossil discovery has helped shed light on the history of dinosaurs in ...
May 30, 2024 This fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of ...
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May 30, 2024 Fossils found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe represent a completely new dinosaur species. This remarkable find, named Musankwa sanyatiensis, marks only the fourth dinosaur species named ...
May 28, 2024 An exceptionally rare fossilized porcupine skeleton discovered in Florida has allowed researchers to trace the evolutionary history for one of North America's rarest ...
May 22, 2024 Thousands of years ago, early hunter-gatherers returned regularly to Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile to hunt ancient elephants and take advantage of other local resources, according to a new ...
May 21, 2024 Scientists discover 'zoned development' in dinosaur skin, with zones of reptile-style scales and zones of bird-like skin with feathers. A new dinosaur skin fossil has been found to be ...
May 20, 2024 From the small ossicones on a giraffe to the gigantic antlers of a male moose -- which can grow as wide as a car -- the headgear of ruminant hooved mammals is extremely diverse, and new research ...
May 20, 2024 The study's findings show mergansers arrived in the New Zealand region at least seven million years ago from the Northern Hemisphere, in a separate colonisation event to that which led to the ...
May 17, 2024 The spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid Douglassarachne acanthopoda was discovered the famous Mazon Creek ...
May 16, 2024 In a groundbreaking study an international team of scientists has investigated the evolutionary patterns behind the development of sabre teeth, with some unexpected results along the ...
May 8, 2024 New research shows human activity is significantly altering the ways in which marine organisms are preserved, with lasting effects that can both improve and impair the fossil ...
May 1, 2024 A research team has found that ancient rocks and fossils from long-extinct marine reptiles in Angola clearly show a key part of Earth's past -- the splitting of South America and Africa and the ...
May 1, 2024 Researchers have provided new age estimates and revised provenance information for the Liujiang human fossils, shedding light on the presence of Homo sapiens in the region. Using advanced dating ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Dinosaurs were likely as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Using environmental DNA analysis, an international team of researchers identified a collection of plants used in ceremonial rituals in the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah in Mexico. The plants, known ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Oncorhynchus rastrosus, a giant species of salmon that lived in the North American Pacific Northwest a few million years ago, sported a pair of front teeth that projected out from the sides of its ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth ...
Apr. 23, 2024 Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study. The study focuses on an ancient ...
Apr. 23, 2024 Palaeontologists have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fleshy parts -- it's all down to their skin. Palaeontologists studied 45-million-year-old fossil ...
Apr. 17, 2024 New research has highlighted an area in Arabia that once acted as a key point for cultural exchanges and trades amongst ancient people -- and it all took place in vast caves and lava tubes that have ...
Apr. 17, 2024 The fossilized remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two meters long has been found on a beach in Somerset, ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Palaeontologists have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse in shape, range and hopping method than previously thought. ...
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- Diverse Headgear in Hoofed Mammals Evolved from Common Ancestor
- Evolutionary History of Extinct Duck Revealed
Friday, May 17, 2024
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- Rock Solid Evidence: Angola Geology Reveals Prehistoric Split Between South America and Africa
- Revised Dating of the Liujiang Skeleton Renews Understanding of Human Occupation of China
Monday, April 29, 2024
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- These Giant, Prehistoric Salmon Had Tusk-Like Teeth
- Researchers Find Oldest Undisputed Evidence of Earth's Magnetic Field
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Bioluminescence First Evolved in Animals at Least 540 Million Years Ago
- Fossil Frogs Share Their Skincare Secrets
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- First Evidence of Human Occupation in Lava Tube Cave in Saudi Arabia
- Paleontologists Unearth What May Be the Largest Known Marine Reptile
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- Rays Were More Diverse 150 Million Years Ago Than Previously Thought
- Researchers Name Prehistoric Amphibian Ancestor Discovered in Smithsonian Collection After Kermit the Frog
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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- New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change
- Earth's Earliest Forest Revealed in Somerset Fossils
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Scientists ID Burned Bodies Using Technique Used for Extracting DNA from Woolly Mammoths, Neanderthals
- Slimming Down a Colossal Fossil Whale
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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- Panama Canal Expansion Rewrites History of World's Most Ecologically Diverse Bats
- Ancient DNA Reveals Down Syndrome in Past Human Societies
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- Surprisingly Vibrant Color of 12-Million-Year-Old Snail Shells
- New Fossil Site of Worldwide Importance Uncovered in Southern France
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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- DNA from Preserved Feces Reveals Ancient Japanese Gut Environment
- Ancient Brown Bear Genomes Sheds Light on Ice Age Losses and Survival
- New Pieces in the Puzzle of First Life on Earth
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- Even the Oldest Eukaryote Fossils Show Dazzling Diversity and Complexity
- Oldest Known Fossilized Skin Is 21 Million Years Older Than Previous Examples
- Prehistoric Person With Turner Syndrome Identified from Ancient DNA
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
- The Extinction of the Giant Ape: Long-Standing Mystery Solved
- New Research Sheds Light on an Old Fossil Solving an Evolutionary Mystery
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
- Insects Already Had a Variety of Defense Strategies in the Cretaceous
- Unveiling Ancient Secrets: 3D Preservation of Trilobite Soft Tissues Sheds Light on Convergent Evolution of Defensive Enrollment
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
- Molecular Fossils Shed Light on Ancient Life
- It Turns Out, This Fossil 'plant' Is Really a Fossil Baby Turtle
- Geoscientists Map Changes in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Over Past 66 Million Years
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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- Earliest-Known Fossil Mosquito Suggests Males Were Bloodsuckers Too
- Crocodile Family Tree Mapped: New Light Shed on Croc Evolution
Thursday, November 30, 2023
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- Unknown Animals Were Leaving Bird-Like Footprints in Late Triassic Southern Africa
- Landscape Dynamics Determine the Evolution of Biodiversity on Earth
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
- Curators and Cavers: How a Tip from a Citizen Scientist Led to Deep Discoveries in Utah's Caves
- Trilobites Rise from the Ashes to Reveal Ancient Map
- Looking for 'LUCA' And the Timing of Cellular Evolution
Friday, November 17, 2023
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- Research in Lake Superior Reveals How Sulfur Might Have Cycled in Earth's Ancient Oceans
- Plants That Survived Dinosaur Extinction Pulled Nitrogen from Air
- Radiocarbon Dating Meets Egyptology and Biblical Accounts in the City of Gezer
- Birds Set Foot Near South Pole in Early Cretaceous, Australian Tracks Show
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- Europe Was Not Covered by Dense Forest Before the Arrival of Modern Humans
- New Study Reveals Surprising Insights Into Feeding Habits of Carnivorous Dinosaurs in North America