Tag: Paleontology

Credit: Doug Peterson One of the best sources of information on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and plant diversity over ...

Credit: Photo by Dulcinea Groff Orono, Maine -- The Falkland Islands are a South Atlantic refuge for some of the ...

The origin of bird flight launched from a more complex evolutionary race than previously thoughtCredit: Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto. Despite ...

Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) Millions of years ago, several species of crocodiles of different genera and characteristics inhabited Europe ...

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz How has the climate changed in the course of the earth's history? Which climatic ...

Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists don't yet know what caused the Triassic mass-extinction event -- one of the largest extinction events ...

Scientists show the unfolding of one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's historyCredit: (PaleoFactory, Sapienza University of Rome) for ...

Credit: Credit: Mike Benton, University of Bristol. Animal images are by Nobu Tamura, Wikimedia. Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, ...

Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth A new species of small pterosaur - similar in size to a turkey - ...

Credit: Marta Szubert A team of scientists led from Uppsala University have described the earliest known example of dentary bone ...

Credit: Graphics: Nuria Melisa Morales Garcia. Morganucodon based on Bob Nicholls/ Palaeocreations 2018 model Pioneering analysis of 200 million-year-old teeth ...

Credit: Mauricio Antón Three fossils found in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China, are about 6.4 million years ...

International research team gains new insights into the evolution of fossil beetlesCredit: D. Peris & R. Kundrata et al. / ...

Ancient lizard's long, crocodile-like snout suggests it carved out a niche in a competitive marine ecosystem.Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura) A new ...

Fossil records depict devastating effect of humans on birds in the BahamasCredit: (Kamella Boullé/Macaulay Library) Though some believe prehistoric humans ...

First study to compare dietary signatures of African and South American mammals in quest to reconstruct ancient ecosystems finds need ...

Credit: Robert Bonde / U.S. Geological Survey. Manatees don't live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are ...

Credit: Hugo Salais (Metazoa Studio) A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, has revealed our most ancient ...

An evolutionary study finds that pteropods, or "wing-footed" sea snails and slugs, have faced acidified oceans in the past - ...

Credit: Tom Stubbs, University of Bristol While dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic, the oceans were filled by predators ...