Tiny ancient bird from China shares skull features with Tyrannosaurus rex
Credit: WANG Min Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have ...
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3,000-year-old shark attack victim found by Oxford-led researchers
Credit: Kyoto University Newspapers regularly carry stories of terrifying shark attacks, but in a paper published today, Oxford-led researchers reveal ...
Did the ancient Maya have parks?
First-of-its-kind DNA analysis finds trees and wild vegetation grew around reservoirs in TikalCredit: David Lentz The ancient Maya city of ...
Mushroom growing out of fossilized ant reveals new genus and species of fungal parasite
Credit: George Poinar Jr., OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a ...
First evidence that medieval plague victims were buried individually with ‘considerable care’
Credit: Mark Gridley In the mid-14th century Europe was devastated by a major pandemic - the Black Death - which ...
Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!
A new study describes a particularly diverse fossil flora from 400 million year ago.Credit: ©Univeristé de Liège The analysis of ...
10,000-year-old DNA pens the first tales of the earliest domesticated goats
Credit: The 'Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project'. New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. ...
Indigenous peoples were stewards of the Western Amazon
Study points to a history of indigenous sustainable use of the Western Amazon stretching back 5,000 yearsCredit: Álvaro del Campo ...
Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than modern fowl because they were seen as sacred, not food — study shows
Credit: Julia Best Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred - not ...
Paleontologists for the first time discover the pierced skull of a Pleistocene cave bear
Probably the find is the only evidence in the world that ancient people hunted Pleistocene small cave bearsCredit: UrFU / ...
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
Credit: Prof. Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our ...
Study sheds light on population history of northern east Asia
Credit: Mao et al., 2021 A study led by research groups of Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate ...
Dinosaur-age fossils provide new insights into origin of flowering plants
Credit: NIGPAS Flowering plants (angiosperms) dominate most terrestrial ecosystems, providing the bulk of human food. However, their origin has been ...
Half of Guadeloupe’s snakes and lizards went extinct after European colonization
Researchers use fossil data to reveal the primary drivers and extent of colonial era extinctionsCredit: Photo by Omkar Vinchu from ...