Tag: Paleontology

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 ...

An international team led by researchers at the University of Bonn extracted DNA from resin-embedded insectsCredit: Georg Oleschinski / Universität ...

Credit: Professor Svante Pääbo and Professor Hugo Zeberg. This figure appeared in the publication in Nature. Since first appearing in ...

New study published in GeologyCredit: Photo courtesy Steven Emslie. Researcher Steven Emslie encountered a puzzle at Cape Irizar, a rocky ...

The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper refuting earlier claims that feathers ...

Credit: Katja Peijnenburg, Erica Goetze, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Lisette Mekkes. Two groups of tiny, delicate marine organisms, sea butterflies and sea ...