Tag: Paleontology

First-of-its-kind DNA analysis finds trees and wild vegetation grew around reservoirs in Tikal The ancient Maya city of Tikal was ...

New techniques used to recreate the image of the Oxyuropoda - the cousin of the garden woodlice The old cousins ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal ...

New climate reconstruction method provides precise picture of climate 78 million years ago Palaeoclimatologists study climate of the geological past. ...

New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the ...

Probably the find is the only evidence in the world that ancient people hunted Pleistocene small cave bears Russian paleontologists ...

Coral insights into 1,000 years of seasonal changes in the Arabian Sea warn of significant impacts caused by global warming. ...

Research involving scientists from the University of A Coruña has succeeded in sequencing the oldest mitochondrial genome of the immediate ...

Credit: Courtney Wagner/University of Utah Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth's climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, ...

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Germany and the United States have analyzed the metabolomes ...

Credit: Christian Sidor Paleontologists had to adjust to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many had to postpone fossil excavations, ...

12000-year-old fish bones shed light on evolutionary processes.Credit: Photo: Anders Romundset, NGU / NTNU The last ice age ended almost ...

New findings show connections between the ancient horse populations in North America, where horses evolved, and Eurasia, where they were ...

Credit: © Cornée et al. Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles, but how ...

Credit: Art by Corbin Rainbolt. A new study led by researchers from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University ...

Credit: James Ormiston Researchers at the University of Bristol found that plant eaters diversified quickly after mass extinctions to eat ...

First complete genome reveals high genetic diversity despite recent brush with extinctionCredit: Photo courtesy of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...

Credit: Sarah Shelley The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive ...

Credit: Andrey Atuchin A giant mosasaur from the end of the Cretaceous period in Morocco that could have reached up ...

Tooth wear offers clues to how diversity of Ice Age mammals co-existed in AlaskaCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative University of Cincinnati ...