Tag: Paleontology

Have you ever wondered why the Megalodon shark became to be so big? Or wondered why some other sharks are ...

Credit: Photos courtesy Illinois Archaeological Society: 'Revealing Greater Cahokia.' CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With a population between 10,000 and 30,000 in ...

Ancient eel-like creature answers questions about when these bizarre fish branched off the evolutionary tree from other vertebratesCredit: Tetsuto Miyashita, ...

Credit: (c) Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum The world of the dinosaurs just got a bit more bizarre with a newly ...

Freshwater shark lived in South Dakota, had teeth shaped like 'Galaga' spaceshipsCredit: (c) Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum SUE the T. ...

Credit: Courtesy of Sawyer Broadley, Amey Zhang and Jeremy DeSilva. The fossil site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind, ...

Research part of detailed accounting of nearly two-million-year-old speciesCredit: © Sculpture Elisabeth Daynes /Photo S. Entressangle Separate skeletons suggested to ...

Scientists use deep learning for the first time ever to account for human evolutionCredit: Pilar Rodriguez By combining deep learning ...

FAU palaeontologists demonstrate that coralline red algae have existed for 300 million years longer than previously presumed Coralline red algae ...

Fodder experiments in guinea pigs provide insights into the causes of tooth wear / Findings could allow scientists to reconstruct ...

Credit: Julia Schwab Analysis of the skulls of lions, wolves and hyenas has helped scientists uncover how prehistoric dogs hunted ...

Brazilian researchers used biogeographic analysis to study trilobites, arthropods that became extinct over 252 million years ago The first appearance ...

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Scientists from Skoltech and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) studied the protein and lipid ...

Credit: American Geophysical Union ARLINGTON, Va.--For his work in the establishment of a new scientific field, Dr. Nicklas Pisias received ...

Credit: Nigel Larkin, taken at Royal Veterinary College, London A nearly metre-long skull of a giant fossil marine ichthyosaur found ...

Washington, DC -- BioOne (about.bioone.org), the nonprofit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, ...

This book is written by Spyridon A. Petropoulos, Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira, Lillian Barros; published on November 15th, 2018 Phytochemicals in ...

Credit: Raiza Segundo, STRI While examining a skull from an ancient burial ground in a pre-Columbian village in Panama, Nicole ...

Researchers state that many mammals lineages coexisted with the dinosaurs before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Although many species of mammals ...

Amber preserving newborns, egg shells, and egg bursters shows that the hatching mechanism of green lacewings was established at least ...