New book ‘Macroevolutionaries’ explores intersection of evolution, art and popular culture
LAWRENCE — A new book of natural history essays co-written by a University of Kansas paleontologist has been published by Columbia ...
Tag: Paleontology
15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study findsCredit: Image courtesy Lonnie Thompson, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, ...
3D printed replicas reveal swimming capabilities of ancient cephalopods
Experiments in water tanks, including a U pool, suggest the ancient animals lived a vertical marine lifestyleCredit: David Peterman University ...
Fossil rodent teeth add North American twist to Caribbean mammals’ origin story
Credit: Jorge Velez-Juarbe GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking ...
Have you ever wondered how many species have inhabited the earth?
Credit: Syracuse University Professors in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences explored whether or not the scientific community will ...
DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life
Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from ...
Huge volcanic eruption disrupted climate but not human evolution
Credit: Steve Self, UC Berkeley New Brunswick, N.J. (July 9, 2021) -- A massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia about 74,000 ...
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains
Credit: Manuel Will The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is strongly ...
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questionsCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND, ...
Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia
Credit: Matthew Jones LAWRENCE -- A new paper appearing in Biology Letters describes the oldest-known fragmentary bat fossils from Asia, ...
New species of pseudo-horses living 37 million years ago
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country describe two palaeotheriidae mammals that lived in the subtropical landscape of AlavaCredit: ...
Wallonia as an international reference for the timeline
Paleontologists from Univeristy of Liège (Belgium) redefine the geological boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. A Walloon site could ...
Sharp size reduction in dinosaurs that changed diet to termites
Credit: Zhixin Han/ https://www.artstation.com/xinyanjun Dinosaurs were generally huge, but a new study of the unusual alvarezsaurs show that they reduced ...
Fossil shark scales provide a glimpse of reef predator populations before human impact
The results indicate that shark abundance in the region declined roughly three-fold since prehistoric timesCredit: ERIN DILLON, AARON O'DEA AND ...
Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago
Deposit contains exceptionally preserved fossils of soft-bodied, juvenile organisms from the Cambrian All life on Earth 500 million years ago ...
Newly sequenced genome of extinct giant lemur sheds light on animal’s biology
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Using an unusually well-preserved subfossil jawbone, a team of researchers -- led by Penn State and ...
New research reveals remarkable resilience of sea life in the aftermath of mass extinctions
Pioneering research has shown marine ecosystems can start working again, providing important functions for humans, after being wiped out much ...
Pleistocene sediment DNA from Denisova Cave
Sediment DNA tracks 300,000 years of hominin and animal presence at Denisova Cave Denisova Cave is located in the Altai ...
The origins of farming insects
Ambrosia fungi cultivated by beetles for more than 100 million years A beetle bores a tree trunk to build a ...
Marine sediments explain how part of Brazil’s Northeast region became semi-arid
The phenomenon is linked to gradual contraction of the tropical rain belt over the last 5,000 years, according to a ...
