Tag: Paleontology

A new study which provides a global estimate of rock cover on the Earth's glaciers has revealed that the expanse ...

Credit: Image by DING Wenna The alpine biome harbors distinctive communities adapted to stressful environmental conditions. For plants, the world's ...

Credit: Senckenberg Research Institute Paleontologists have described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a large owl that killed medium-sized mammals ...

Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Opole examined a fossil that raises questionsCredit: Image: Sudipta Kalita Have you ever ...

A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) provides a detailed description of the climate changes taking place ...

Credit: Danielle Byerley GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A large fruit-eating bird from Tonga joins the dodo in the lineup of giant ...

Single-letter change in DNA also makes the fish a useful model for human spinal defectsCredit: Michel Bagnat Lab, Duke University ...

Credit: Cornelia Rasmussen A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to ...

Credit: Dr Martin Bates, UWTSD Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through ...

Local paleontologist and professor Dr. Julia McHugh authors new studyCredit: Brian Engh Top predators dinosaurs like the Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus ...

New study is first to describe growth rate of one of the most common and abundant trilobites and compare with ...

Interdisciplinary studies in paleogenetics and archeozoologyCredit: Magdalena Krajcarz A loner and a hunter with highly developed territorial instincts, a cruel ...

An international team reveals discoveries about an unusual time called the 'Carnian Pluvial Episode'Credit: Jorge Gonzalez/NHMU The Triassic Period, about ...

Credit: ©Science China Press The Taxaceae are a distinct conifer family widely used in ornamental horticulture and are an important ...

A PhD student has produced the first digital reconstruction of the skull of a gigantic dormouse, which roamed the island ...

Credit: Brian Engh, commissioned by The Saint George Dinosaur Discovery Site. From movies to museum exhibits, the dinosaur Dilophosaurus is ...

Researchers find fast rates of morphological evolution do not need to coincide with taxonomic diversification as predicted by the classical ...

Credit: Ian Cooke/Cooked Illustrations Humans have manipulated and managed rivers with dams for millennia. The number of river dam projects ...

Credit: University of Stirling The environmental benefits of taller, shrubbier tundra plants in the Arctic may be overstated, according to ...

Credit: Picture: Peter Schouten The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial - Mukupirna nambensis - that was unearthed ...