Tag: Paleontology

Credit: Guillermo Navalon Darwin's finches are among the most celebrated examples of adaptive radiation in the evolution of modern vertebrates ...

Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) Sixty-six million years ago, in the emerged lands of Laurasia -now the northern hemisphere- a ...

Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a ...

Credit: Todd Marshall A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. ...

Did oviraptoridchicks hatch at the same time? Researchers at the University of Bonn and the TU Munich provide presumptive evidenceCredit: ...

Credit: Hsu Shu-yu About 800,000 years ago, the giant straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon migrated out of Africa and became widespread across ...

Researchers think it was one of the first animals to spend time on landCredit: Images courtesy Andrew Wendruff COLUMBUS, Ohio ...

San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist describes a dinosaur that is new to science, offers view into dinosaur-bird evolutionCredit: Ashley ...

3D scans confirm Australian bird's link to South AmericaCredit: Flinders University One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, ...

Credit: University of Missouri A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find ...

Credit: Taro Okamura Scientists could soon better investigate the feeding behaviors of extinct dolphin and whale species. A third year ...

Team from Göttingen, Helsinki and New York gets new insights into the evolution of myxomycetesCredit: Alexander Schmidt, University of Göttingen ...

Credit: José Cerca, Christian Meyer, Günter Purschke, Torsten H. Struck That size, shape and structure of organisms can evolve at ...

The discovery also points to food being shared and the use of wooden digging sticks to extract the plants from ...

Credit: Matt Wood Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution ...

Credit: Alexander Khramov, Gi-Soo Nam. New species was named Buccinatormyia gangnami, after a famous hit by a South Korean singer ...

New 96-million-year old turtles from Texas connect North America with Asia and the Southern Hemisphere, suggesting vast intercontinental migrations during ...

Research by an international team of scientists suggests Homo erectus went extinct between 117,000 and 108,000 years agoCredit: Russell L. ...

Credit: Selden et al. LAWRENCE -- Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous ...

Second African lungfish found far southCredit: Artist's impression by Maggie Newman A second ancient lungfish has been discovered in Africa, ...