For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy chewing with relatively ...
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If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to blame.
An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds.
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An international team has found that equations to determine the speed of a moving dinosaur based on prints in trackways may be inaccurate. In their study published in the journal Biology Letters, the group urged test guineafowl ...
A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped shape Appalachian amphibian ...
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Imagine a lush forest with tree-ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds. Conifers tower overhead, bearing triangular leaves almost sharp enough to pierce skin. Flowering plants are both small and rare.
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Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.
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A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking lot in January, making the herbivorous animal's remains the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil ...
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Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) ...
Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought.
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