Tag: Paleontology

Credit: Karen Koy, Missouri Western State University. As the number and technology of humans has grown, their impact on the ...

Credit: Daniel Hallen/USask SASKATOON--The heady aroma of magnolia blossoms and lotus flowers might have wafted to your nostrils if you ...

First blooms made it to Australia 126 millions years agoCredit: Vera Korasidis New research has revealed that Australia's oldest flowering ...

Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impactCredit: Northwestern University Shells' chemistry shifted to ...

Credit: Hockings & Dunbar The ability to process alcohol may have saved humanity's ancestors from extinction, a new book suggests. ...

The German Research Foundation funds a joint Collaborative Research Center between Freie Universität Berlin and Münster UniversityCredit: privat A Transregional ...

Credit: NIGPAS Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors before diversifying into 30-40 distinct anatomical designs. When and how animal ancestors made ...

Credit: Philip Donoghue and Zongjun Yin Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, before diversifying into 30 or 40 distinct anatomical designs. ...

Credit: Sean McMahon The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks ...

Credit: N. Robin, C. D'Haese and P. Barden When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that ...

Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Foodie tradition dictates only eating wild oysters in months with the letter "r" ...

New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles.Credit: Render of ...

Credit: (c) Matthew P. Nelsen, Field Museum You've probably seen a lichen, even if you didn't realize it. If you've ...

Credit: The British Museum The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt -- the largest ...

Credit: Peter Trusler A cache of 118 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur and bird feathers has been recovered from an ancient lake ...

Early dispersal for quadrupedal cetaceans: an amphibious whale from the middle Eocene of the southeastern PacificCredit: O. Lambert. Scientists have ...

Credit: C.T. Gee The long-necked, big bodied sauropod dinosaurs comprise some of the largest terrestrial vertebrates to walk the earth. ...

Credit: Field Museum Mammals' backbones are weird. Compared to other four-legged animals like reptiles, mammal spines are a complex mix ...

They have identified a small genetic imprint of the inhabitants of the region in Palaeolithic times, thus ruling out the ...

Researchers supported by FAPESP proposed a procedure based on analyses of quartz and feldspar grains transported to the Atlantic Ocean ...