New giant dinosaur species discovered in Chile
Chilean paleontologists announced Monday the discovery of a new species of giant dinosaurs called Arackar licanantay.
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Inner ear of 6-million-year-old ape fossil reveals clues about the evolution of human movement
Humans and our closest relatives, living apes, display a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion—from walking upright on two legs to climbing in trees and walking using all four limbs.
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Research shows we're surprisingly similar to Earth's first animals
The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows.
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New study suggests humans evolved to run on less water than our closest primate relatives
When you think about what separates humans from chimpanzees and other apes, you might think of our big brains, or the fact that we get around on two legs rather than four. But we have another distinguishing feature: water ...
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Ancient crocodile found in Peru sheds new light on their origin
A team of researchers at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, working with colleagues from the U.S. and France, has uncovered a prehistoric crocodile fossil in Peru. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
New South American site reveals extraordinary fossils from the end of the age of the dinosaurs
The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the time period just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.
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The largest-ever flying animal behaved like a giant heron
The largest-ever flying animal acted like a giant heron, plucking prey from the water and launching itself into the air.
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Bird brains left other dinosaurs behind
Today, being "birdbrained" means forgetting where you left your keys or wallet. But 66 million years ago, it may have meant the difference between life and death—and may help explain why birds are the only dinosaurs left ...
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300,000-year-old snapshot: Oldest human footprints from Germany found
In a study published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment presents ...
Ecology
May 12, 2023
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Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved
A wide variety of animals have tusks, from elephants and walruses to five-pound, guinea pig-looking critters called hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals have in common is that they're all mammals—there are no known fish, ...
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