The day the world burned
Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 ...
Tag: Paleontology
Changes in rat size reveal habitat of ‘Hobbit’ hominin
A new glimpse into the shifting ecology of Homo floresiensisCredit: Image from the research paper A study of rat body ...
Unraveling the mystery of life: House fly edition
University of Houston biologist receives NSF CAREER award to explore sex determination of fliesCredit: University of Houston Richard Meisel, assistant ...
From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human
The technology of miniaturization set hominins apart from other primatesCredit: Emory University Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making ...
Teenage T. rex was already chomping on prey, new UW Oshkosh research shows
Credit: Patrick Flood, UW Oshkosh New research from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh indicates that even as a teenager the ...
Researchers find a piece of Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans
An exceptional milestone in European Palaeolithic rock artCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA It is not very common to find representations of ...
New wallaby-sized dinosaur from the ancient Australian-Antarctic rift valley
Upper jaws of a new dinosaur from Victoria, Australia, give fresh insight into the diversity of small herbivorous dinosaurs that ...
Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid strike that wiped them out
Credit: Davide Bonadonna Dinosaurs were unaffected by long-term climate changes and flourished before their sudden demise by asteroid strike. Scientists ...
Dingoes should remain a distinct species in Australia
20 leading researchers have confirmed in a new study that the dingo is actually a unique, Australian species in its ...
How megalodon’s teeth evolved into the ‘ultimate cutting tools’
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is known only ...
A small plesiosaur lived in Spain 125 million years ago
Credit: José Antonio Peñas / SINC Plesiosaurs, erroneously viewed as dinosaurs, inhabited all the seas between 200 million and 65 ...
Paleontology: Diversification after mass extinction
A team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich paleontologist Adriana López-Arbarello has identified three hitherto unknown fossil fish species in ...
500-million-year old worm ‘superhighway’ discovered in Canada
Credit: Professor Brian Pratt, University of Saskatchewan Prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago--evidence that life was ...
Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expected
Reconstitution of Amoebozoa's evolution shows significant Precambrian species diversity; this study changes the view of how life evolved in the ...
New findings shed light on origin of upright walking in human ancestors
4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggestedCredit: Case Western Reserve University School of ...
Giant animals lived in Amazonian mega-wetland
Lake systems existing in regions over 10 million years ago survived the Amazon River reversal due to Andean uplift A ...
Bristol undergraduate reconstructs the skulls of 2 species of ancient reptile
Credit: Image by Sophie Chambi-Trowell. Using two partially fragmented fossil skulls, a student at the University of Bristol has digitally ...
Did volcanoes kill the dinosaurs? New evidence points to ‘maybe.’
New precise ages for Deccan Traps volcanoes ties the second major eruption pulse to the mass extinctionCredit: Gerta Keller, Department ...
Extinct weasel relative with confounding skull likely ate meat with a side of veggies
New biomechanical study finds that the strangely shaped skull of Leptarctus is most similar to the American badgerCredit: © AMNH/N. ...
Foxes were domesticated by humans in the Bronze Age
Credit: J. A. Peñas In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, between the third and second millennium BC, a widespread ...
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