Tag: Paleontology

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 ...

Credit: Rowan Martindale/The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences. Some of the world's most exquisite fossil beds ...

Credit: Joep Schaeffer A big problem with dinosaurs is that there seem to be too many meat-eaters. From studies of ...

Credit: Julius Csotonyi In 1973, a teacher named Joan Hodgins took her students on a hike near Whitehorse in Canada's ...

Published in Nature Scientific DataCredit: Photographer: Dr Johannes Lemburg, Alfred Wegener Institute Marine sediments play a crucial role in the ...

New findings highlight diversity of marine mammalsCredit: Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries New genetic research has identified fin whales in the northern ...

Most researchers believe that the mass extinction 201 million years ago was caused by release of CO2 by volcanism with ...

Credit: Matteo Belvedere et al. Dinosaur footprints found in several European countries, very similar to others in Morocco, suggest that ...

A study that was published today in Cell Host & Microbe explored for the first time the variation and evolution ...

Discovery provides valuable insight into evolution of theropod dinosaurs around the worldCredit: Jan Sovak The discovery of a nearly complete ...

Old museum specimens are giving researchers fresh insights into endangered speciesCredit: Jay Yocis/UC Creative Services Scientists who are trying to ...

Animals that seek mates and fight rivals that resemble parents could eventually set stage for new speciesCredit: Richards-Zawacki Lab PITTSBURGH--A ...

Researchers say human and primate saliva 'could be overlooked hotbeds of evolutionary activity'Credit: Photo: Stefan Ruhl BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Two ...

Credit: Juha Karhu The last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean; they died out 4,000 years ...

Credit: Conor MacDonnell Seagrass meadows put down deep roots, persisting in the same spot for hundreds and possibly thousands of ...

'An experiment of nature' after the end-Cretaceous mass extinctionCredit: © Giuseppe Marramà An international research team led by Giuseppe Marramà ...

First African evidence to support hypothesis of an asteroid impact that contributed to the extinction of large animals 12,800 years ...

Credit: Tracy J. Thomson in BioEssays If "Why?" is the first question in science, "Why not?" must be a close ...