Tag: Paleontology

Researchers from Penn and Harvard are the first to make archaeological use of U2 spy plane imagery, and have created ...

With new genome analysis tools, scientists have made significant advances in our understanding of modern humans' origins and ancient migrations. ...

Ancient fossil named as new speciesCredit: Joschua Knüppe A newly identified species of 150 million-year-old marine crocodile has given insights ...

A long-nosed fly from the Jurassic of Central Asia, reported by Russian paleontologists, provides new evidence that insects have started ...

LAWRENCE -- A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a scientific ...

Fossil site preserves animals killed within minutes of meteor impactCredit: Graphic courtesy of Robert DePalma The beginning of the end ...

Paper published in Scientific Reports describes paleontologists' unearthing part of a skull, illustrating that there is much to learn about ...

Credit: Amanda Kelley Paleontologists have discovered and characterized the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found, making it the biggest terrestrial ...

Credit: A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius. Gabriel Barathieu, Wikipedia. It's a question that ...

Barnacles that hitchhiked aboard humpback whales tell of prehistoric yearly migrationsCredit: Larry Taylor, UC Berkeley Barnacles that hitch rides on ...

Credit: Ilya Bobrovskiy, The Australian National University (ANU) Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered that 558 million-year-old ...

Credit: The University of Manchester Scientists at The University of Manchester have joined forces with a major US Museum and ...

Nicknamed 'Scotty,' the record-breaking rex is also the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Canada.Credit: Amanda Kelley University of Alberta ...

Feathers revealed in a 125 million-year-old fossil of a bird hatchling shows it came out of the egg runningCredit: @Kaye ...