Tag: Paleontology

Ohio researchers describe most complete mammal from the Cretaceous Period of Africa, underscoring the need for additional field explorationCredit: Patrick ...

The findings, published in Science, show an invasion of steppe descendants who replaced almost all men 4,000 years ago Published ...

Ecological transformation in the wake of the 'Great Dying' moves scientists closer to understanding the nature of recoveryCredit: © 2019 ...

Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 ...

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 ...