Crystals Found in Dino-Era Fossil Bird Complicates Mystery of Its Diet
Quartz crystals found in a fossilized bird complicates the mystery of its diet and what role it played in its ancient habitat.
Read moreQuartz crystals found in a fossilized bird complicates the mystery of its diet and what role it played in its ancient habitat.
Read moreNew evidence from scientists at the University of Chicago shows exactly how the tiktaalik roseae, one of the first semi-aquatic organisms, fed itself using a similar feeding mechanism to modern predatory fish, filling in another blank about early water-to-land evolution.
Read moreBy analyzing the minerals within a type of limestone, researchers were able to determine how changes in the global temperature linked to different types of flourishing life.
Read moreMagnetic fossils of unknown organisms formed during past periods of global climate change are providing new clues about Earth’s ever-changing climate.
Read moreA large, fossilized marine burrow dating to about 20 million years ago was likely home to giant, ambush-predator worms, according to research published Thursday.
Read moreThough not the first bug fossil with genitals discovered, they were unusually well preserved.
Read moreFor 57,000 years, a wolf pup lay in her collapsed permafrost den in nearly pristine condition. Then climate change brought her out for all the world to see.
Read moreThe avian fossil, found in what is now Madagascar, offers insight into the evolution of the faces of modern birds.
Read moreTeenage years are often awkward for adolescents, but none more so than the Tyrannosaurus rex, according to research Tuesday that revealed the giant dinosaur had to contend with a sudden and intense growth spurt as it aged into an adult.
Read moreThe fossil skeletons of two dinosaurs intertwined in what looks like a final death match have been donated to a North Carolina museum.
Read moreAfter over a decade of research and hundreds of new fossils recovered from the hot mines of India, researchers say they have uncovered new details regarding the evolutionary history of Earth’s most famous hoofed animals.
Read moreGerman researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind turbines.
Read moreHeadlines in 2016 declared that the world’s most ancient chameleon was found fossilized in amber 99 million years ago. On Thursday, researchers involved in that discovery amended their claim: that ancient amphibian was no chameleon, but a member of a now-extinct lineage of tiny, salamander-like creatures known as albanerpetontids, or “albies” for short.
Read moreAn extinct shrimp is set to make a big splash in the world of evolutionary biology.
Read moreScientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of a distant ancestor of modern mammals, a 220-million-year-old rat-like creature found in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
Read moreFrom humble beginnings, the pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates, evolved to grow as big as 650 pounds with wingspans the size of airplanes. A new study of fossil records shows their flight efficiency improved with changes in their body size.
Read moreUsing an examination of their fossilized teeth, scientists on Monday revealed the world’s earliest mammals were seemingly more reptile-like, upending what paleontologists believed about their lifespan and activity levels.
Read moreOne of the most complete specimens of a T-Rex fossil in the world was sold for a record $31.8 million Tuesday by Christie’s in New York, nearly quadrupling the previous highest price for a dinosaur at auction.
Read moreMalta says it will seek to retrieve a shark tooth that was presented to Britain’s Prince George by veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, who found the fossil during a holiday on the Mediterranean island in the 1960s.
Read moreAn international team of paleontologists uncovered the world’s oldest known sperm cells during an intensive examination of 100-million-year-old small crustaceans preserved in amber in what is now Myanmar.
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