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A remarkable fossil assemblage gets a new interpretation

A team of paleontologists recently discovered that an ancient seascape known for its diverse assemblage of exceptionally preserved fossils represents an unexpected oceanic setting, placing the fossils in an environmental ...

Ancient DNA brings to life the history of the iconic aurochs

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs—the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art—by analyzing ...

Gold bugs: New fossil arthropod preserved in fool's gold

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod (the group that contains spiders, centipedes, ...

New ancient species of cockroach discovered in the UK

A pair of paleontologists at The Open University, working with a colleague from the National Museum of Scotland, have identified a new species of ancient cockroach excavated from a site in Gloucestershire, U.K. In their paper ...

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Paleontology & Fossils
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Evolution
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Evolution
One of the earliest examples of a winged seed found in a mine in China
Paleontology & Fossils
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Paleontology & Fossils
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Evolution
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Paleontology & Fossils
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Evolution
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Paleontology & Fossils
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New species of mosasaur named for Norse sea serpent

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With "transitional" traits that place it between two well-known mosasaurs, the new species is ...

Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton

A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the oceans half a billion years ago. The tiny organisms, detailed in a new study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...