A chronicle of giant straight-tusked elephants
Credit: Hsu Shu-yu About 800,000 years ago, the giant straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon migrated out of Africa and became widespread across ...
Tag: Paleontology
Fossil is the oldest-known scorpion
Researchers think it was one of the first animals to spend time on landCredit: Images courtesy Andrew Wendruff COLUMBUS, Ohio ...
New dinosaur discovered in China shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds
San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist describes a dinosaur that is new to science, offers view into dinosaur-bird evolutionCredit: Ashley ...
Inside story on cassowary evolution
3D scans confirm Australian bird's link to South AmericaCredit: Flinders University One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, ...
MU scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract — 550 million years
Credit: University of Missouri A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find ...
A ‘pivotal’ moment for understanding whale evolution
Credit: Taro Okamura Scientists could soon better investigate the feeding behaviors of extinct dolphin and whale species. A third year ...
100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold
Team from Göttingen, Helsinki and New York gets new insights into the evolution of myxomycetesCredit: Alexander Schmidt, University of Göttingen ...
Ghost worms mostly unchanged since the age of dinosaurs
Credit: José Cerca, Christian Meyer, Günter Purschke, Torsten H. Struck That size, shape and structure of organisms can evolve at ...
Early modern humans cooked starchy food in South Africa, 170,000 years ago
The discovery also points to food being shared and the use of wooden digging sticks to extract the plants from ...
How fish fins evolved just before the transition to land
Credit: Matt Wood Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution ...
Ancient wasp-mimicking fly from South Korea named after PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’
Credit: Alexander Khramov, Gi-Soo Nam. New species was named Buccinatormyia gangnami, after a famous hit by a South Korean singer ...
Fossil research unveils new turtle species and hints at intercontinental migrations
New 96-million-year old turtles from Texas connect North America with Asia and the Southern Hemisphere, suggesting vast intercontinental migrations during ...
New study identifies last known occurrence of Homo erectus
Research by an international team of scientists suggests Homo erectus went extinct between 117,000 and 108,000 years agoCredit: Russell L. ...
A ‘Jackalope’ of an ancient spider fossil deemed a hoax, unmasked as a crayfish
Credit: Selden et al. LAWRENCE -- Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous ...