A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolved in animals—including us.
Evolution
Nov 1, 2023
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A team of paleontologists, evolutionists and geoscientists affiliated with several entities in Germany has extracted Ice Age woolly rhino DNA from fossilized excrement samples (coprolites) found in a cave in Germany. Their ...
A small international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of proterosuchid in India dating back 250 million years ago. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes ...
In 2013, University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders was invited to the Arabian Peninsula by an international team studying fossils and fossil sites in Abu Dhabi.
Evolution
Oct 31, 2023
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Humankind's genetic links to long-extinct relatives are being mapped in a rapidly expanding research field called paleoproteomics.
Evolution
Oct 31, 2023
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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 ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 30, 2023
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There are stories in the human bones at the American Museum of Natural History. They tell of lives lived—some mere decades ago, others in past centuries—in cultures around the world.
Other
Oct 26, 2023
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Jewel wasps (Chalcidoidea) are one of the most diverse groups of insects, with more than 120,000 species described and an estimated true diversity of nearly 1 million. The chalcids are parasitoid wasps, which attack other ...
Evolution
Oct 25, 2023
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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 ...
Evolution
Oct 25, 2023
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The exciting discovery of three new species of a small Australian marsupial has been tempered by the sad fact that each of the newly identified species of mulgara is likely already extinct.
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2023
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