Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies.
Evolution
Sep 15, 2022
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Using fossilized eggs in up to 2,500-year-old feces from Viking settlements in Denmark and other countries, researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Wellcome Sanger ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2022
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An international team of paleontologists led by Virginia Tech has discovered and named a new, early dinosaur. The skeleton—incredibly, mostly intact—was first found by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department ...
Evolution
Aug 31, 2022
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Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche. With massive jaws and teeth like those of killer whales, Thalassotitan hunted other marine reptiles—plesiosaurs, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 24, 2022
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The acquisition of bipedalism is considered to be a decisive step in human evolution. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on its modalities and age, notably due to the lack of fossil remains. A research team, involving researchers ...
Evolution
Aug 24, 2022
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Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a coming out party.
Evolution
Aug 19, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Argentina has found chromosomal evidence of people living in South America as far back as 18,000 years ago. The group has published a paper describing their work ...
The reconstructed megalodon (Otodus megalodon) was 16 meters long and weighed more than 61 tons. It was estimated that it swam at around 1.4 meters per second, required over 98,000 kilo calories every day and had a stomach ...
Ecology
Aug 17, 2022
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An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree.
Evolution
Aug 17, 2022
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Hundreds of animals eat fruit, from toucans to fruit bats to maned wolves to humans. But most fruit-bearing plants evolved relatively recently in Earth's history, showing up for the first time in the Cretaceous, the final ...
Ecology
Aug 16, 2022
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