Tag: Paleontology

The origin of bird flight launched from a more complex evolutionary race than previously thoughtCredit: Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto. Despite ...

Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) Millions of years ago, several species of crocodiles of different genera and characteristics inhabited Europe ...

Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz How has the climate changed in the course of the earth's history? Which climatic ...

Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists don't yet know what caused the Triassic mass-extinction event -- one of the largest extinction events ...

Scientists show the unfolding of one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's historyCredit: (PaleoFactory, Sapienza University of Rome) for ...

Credit: Credit: Mike Benton, University of Bristol. Animal images are by Nobu Tamura, Wikimedia. Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, ...

Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth A new species of small pterosaur - similar in size to a turkey - ...

Credit: Marta Szubert A team of scientists led from Uppsala University have described the earliest known example of dentary bone ...

Credit: Graphics: Nuria Melisa Morales Garcia. Morganucodon based on Bob Nicholls/ Palaeocreations 2018 model Pioneering analysis of 200 million-year-old teeth ...

Credit: Mauricio Antón Three fossils found in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China, are about 6.4 million years ...

International research team gains new insights into the evolution of fossil beetlesCredit: D. Peris & R. Kundrata et al. / ...

Ancient lizard's long, crocodile-like snout suggests it carved out a niche in a competitive marine ecosystem.Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura) A new ...

Fossil records depict devastating effect of humans on birds in the BahamasCredit: (Kamella Boullé/Macaulay Library) Though some believe prehistoric humans ...

First study to compare dietary signatures of African and South American mammals in quest to reconstruct ancient ecosystems finds need ...

Credit: Robert Bonde / U.S. Geological Survey. Manatees don't live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are ...

Credit: Hugo Salais (Metazoa Studio) A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, has revealed our most ancient ...

An evolutionary study finds that pteropods, or "wing-footed" sea snails and slugs, have faced acidified oceans in the past - ...

Credit: Tom Stubbs, University of Bristol While dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic, the oceans were filled by predators ...

An international team led by researchers at the University of Bonn extracted DNA from resin-embedded insectsCredit: Georg Oleschinski / Universität ...

Credit: Professor Svante Pääbo and Professor Hugo Zeberg. This figure appeared in the publication in Nature. Since first appearing in ...