Tag: Paleontology

A new glimpse into the shifting ecology of Homo floresiensisCredit: Image from the research paper A study of rat body ...

University of Houston biologist receives NSF CAREER award to explore sex determination of fliesCredit: University of Houston Richard Meisel, assistant ...

The technology of miniaturization set hominins apart from other primatesCredit: Emory University Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making ...

Credit: Patrick Flood, UW Oshkosh New research from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh indicates that even as a teenager the ...

An exceptional milestone in European Palaeolithic rock artCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA It is not very common to find representations of ...

Upper jaws of a new dinosaur from Victoria, Australia, give fresh insight into the diversity of small herbivorous dinosaurs that ...

Credit: Davide Bonadonna Dinosaurs were unaffected by long-term climate changes and flourished before their sudden demise by asteroid strike. Scientists ...

20 leading researchers have confirmed in a new study that the dingo is actually a unique, Australian species in its ...

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is known only ...

Credit: José Antonio Peñas / SINC Plesiosaurs, erroneously viewed as dinosaurs, inhabited all the seas between 200 million and 65 ...

A team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich paleontologist Adriana López-Arbarello has identified three hitherto unknown fossil fish species in ...

Credit: Professor Brian Pratt, University of Saskatchewan Prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago--evidence that life was ...

Reconstitution of Amoebozoa's evolution shows significant Precambrian species diversity; this study changes the view of how life evolved in the ...

4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggestedCredit: Case Western Reserve University School of ...

Lake systems existing in regions over 10 million years ago survived the Amazon River reversal due to Andean uplift A ...

Credit: Image by Sophie Chambi-Trowell. Using two partially fragmented fossil skulls, a student at the University of Bristol has digitally ...

New precise ages for Deccan Traps volcanoes ties the second major eruption pulse to the mass extinctionCredit: Gerta Keller, Department ...

New biomechanical study finds that the strangely shaped skull of Leptarctus is most similar to the American badgerCredit: © AMNH/N. ...

Credit: J. A. Peñas In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, between the third and second millennium BC, a widespread ...

Researchers at the University of Bonn used drill cores to trace back the fires of the past 600,000 yearsCredit: (c) ...