Tag: Paleontology

Credit: (© Sebastian Stumpf) This rare fossil find comes from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England, a series of sedimentary ...

Whole mitochondrial DNA sequencing of the three extant species of the aquatic mammal shows that they first split from their ...

Findings indicate global warming could reduce biodiversity in tropicsCredit: Adapted from figure in Current Biology / Cell Press The bulging, ...

Paleontologists working in museum collections in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany have identified five additional specimens of a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur, named ...

New biogeographical affinities in Cretaceous floraCredit: Cretaceous Research A study published in Cretaceous Research expands the paleontological richness of continental ...

Freshwater fossil displays multicellularity 400 million years earlier than previously establishedCredit: P.K. Strother Chestnut Hill, MA (5/3/2021) -- The billion-year-old ...

Giant cat roamed North America 5-9 million years agoCredit: Photo courtesy of John Orcutt COLUMBUS, Ohio - A giant saber-toothed ...

Study: Skull asymmetry arose rapidly from trait co-evolutionCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 3, 2021) - Ever look at ...

Humans have significantly altered biodiversity in all climate zones of the Earth. This has been shown by a study published ...

Uranium-series dating shows South African midden is world's oldestCredit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have learned a lot about ...

Credit: Giuliana Panieri Ice ages are not that easy to define. It may sound intuitive that an ice age represents ...

Paleontologists find second hadrosaurid speciesCredit: Artwork by Masato Hattori. DALLAS (SMU) - An international team of paleontologists has identified a ...

Toothed and baleen whales show different patterns of blowhole developmentCredit: Rachel Roston. The two major types of cetaceans appear to ...

New ancient DNA-based study on Madagascar crocodile suggests that modern crocodiles likely originated in AfricaCredit: M. Ellison/©AMNH A study led ...