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Early Primate Had Transitional Lemur-Like Grooming Claw
January 10, 2012 — A new study examines the first extinct North American primate with a toe bone showing features associated with the presence of both nails and a grooming claw, indicating our primate ancestors may ... > full story -
Molecular 'Culprit' in Rise of Planetary Oxygen
January 10, 2012 — A turning point in the history of life occurred two to three billion years ago with the unprecedented appearance and dramatic rise of molecular oxygen. Now researchers report they have identified an ... > full story -
Prehistoric Predators With Supersized Teeth Had Beefier Arm Bones
January 4, 2012 — The toothiest prehistoric predators also had beefier arm bones, according to results of a new study. Saber-toothed tigers may come to mind, but these extinct cats weren't the only animals with ... > full story -
Scientists Crack Medieval Bone Code
January 3, 2012 — The existence of brucellosis, an infectious disease still prevalent today, has now been confirmed in ancient skeletal ... > full story -
New Theory Emerges for Where Some Fish Became Four-Limbed Creatures
December 27, 2011 — A small fish crawling on stumpy limbs from a shrinking desert pond is an icon of can-do spirit, emblematic of a leading theory for the evolutionary transition between fish and amphibians. This ... > full story -
Bacteria's Move from Sea to Land May Have Occurred Much Later Than Thought
December 22, 2011 — A new analysis indicates the shift of soil bacteria Azospirillum may have occurred only 400 million years ago, rather than approximately two billion years earlier as originally ... > full story -
Chinese Fossils Shed Light on Evolutionary Origin of Animals from Single-Cell Ancestors
December 22, 2011 — Evidence of the single-celled ancestors of animals, dating from the interval in the Earth's history just before multicellular animals appeared, has been discovered in 570 million-year-old rocks from ... > full story -
World's First Super Predator Had Remarkable Vision
December 7, 2011 — Scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of the earth's first food ... > full story -
New Horned Dinosaur Announced Nearly 100 Years After Discovery
December 6, 2011 — A new species of horned dinosaur was just announced by an international team of scientists, nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. The animal, named Spinops sternbergorum, lived ... > full story -
Ancient Meat-Loving Predators Survived for 35 Million Years
December 6, 2011 — A species of ancient predator with saw-like teeth, sleek bodies and a voracious appetite for meat survived a major extinction at a time when the distant relatives of mammals ruled the ... > full story -
Ancient Environment Found to Drive Marine Biodiversity
November 24, 2011 — Much of our knowledge about past life has come from the fossil record -- but how accurately does that reflect the true history and drivers of biodiversity on ... > full storyMore: -
Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations
November 21, 2011 — Traditionally, fossil-hunters often could only make educated guesses as to where fossils lie. The rest lay with chance. But thanks to a new software model, fossil-hunters' reliance on luck when ... > full story
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